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So, I had a essay for Social Studies, right? I think "Yeah, nothing's going to happen. I have it all done and finished already. What could possibly go wrong?" I then get a text from my friend that fainted (Let's call her...Payton!) and she says, "*MY NAME*, I have to go work on my essay. Ugh." And then I text back, "When's that thing due again?" And Payton says, "Tomorrow." And then I flip out. One paragraph. ONE PARAGRAPH DONE! I just race, print off the rubric and the thing I'm supposed to write on (because I left the original darn thing at school) and rush and get it done somehow :D. I am amazing. Did it. In. One. Hour.

So procrastination really is the real enemy. Not your mind. Procrastination.

So's I'd like to hear you guys' silly procrastination stories. And don't get mad at me; when I realize I've procrastinated, work with a purpose, as one of my teachers would say.

I had to make up days' worths of English homework one time, but I'd been putting it off, but then I got it done a few hours before it was due.

I can elaborate later, maybe; just not feelin' it right now.

Awwww. Why not? 

Mainly, for the sake of the joke.

>Have English 10 Honors

>Read Huckleberry Finn from beginning to end, skip a bunch of chapters in the middle because they weren't on any immediate tests.

>Finals: "You must write 2 out of 5 of these essay prompts regarding Huckleberry Finn! Turn it in on the last day of the quarter!"

>Write one half of the first essay (about how vices are portrayed or some shit) and then completely forget about it.

>The day it's due. No progress since then.

>Terrified, bullshit my way through the rest of the essay by providing a bunch of examples on how everybody in the book is a slave to their own personal shit, just like Jim, and then spend the rest of the period vaguely following the prompt about Allusions by going on for pages that Harney and whatsherface are clearly Romeo and Juliet, but in a much more brutal story because Twain was trying to show us all how the South is worse than Medieval Italy.

>Email it to the teacher right in front of his face while trying to pretend I had it done all along and hiding the sweat starting to manifest on my temples.

>Get a solid A. Lost points for spelling errors. Spelling. Errors.

Glad you got your grade six two paragraph essay done! :D 

Bitch pls, when I was in 6th grade we had to write way more than two paragraphs...

Hahaha no, not for me.

Finished my essay by writing in it as I was walking to the pile of completed papers to turn it in.

All the looks of disapproval would not separate me from that B.

How the Hell could you type an essay and print it in the time it takes to drop it in?

Talking about procrastination I see. I can recall one time, I think I was 24 or 23 somewhere in there, I was going to college online at night, and ended up having like 4 essays due the very same week. Most people don't realize that online college can actually be harder than regular college. This is because you mainly read all the material yourself to learn it, then you have to write essay's about what you learned. And I'm talking 5-10 page essays with perfect grammer and formatted correctly that clearly demonstrate you understood and truly learned the material that week.

Anyway, as I was saying, I put a few of my essays off until the last week they were due and ended up with 4 essays  to finish in 3 or 4 days. A nearly impossible task, as at that time I had a 6 month old baby. Fortunately, I managed to get them all written in time by finding a baysitter and not sleeping for days... Procrastination is bad.( But I was young and wanted to have fun. Shrug. Ah well.) I ended up dropping out. But I was very shocked and a little proud of myself when I finally got my transcript and had a 4.0 gpa. I honestly think you lose some of your smarts as you get older though as I know my grammer today is nowhere close to where it was then. Or maybe kids just make you a little crazy and too stressed to focus as much as I did then. Who knows? Hope I haven't bored ya'll to much. Lol. :P

Ah, yes. I always pay people to squat on the beach before I write.

I don't know what to even make out of that post. Your message is lost on me...

"baysitter"

Lmao. Well, in my own defense, that's not poor grammar on my part but rather the "stupid quit trying to fix what isn't wrong" keyboard I'm forced to use at the moment. I'm using my son's Kindle, and the darn thing keep fixing words that are correct and sometimes adding a new word into last one like so: whathellever. Lol. I've tried changing the settings and everything, but I swear this damn thing is possessed. I'm so glad I will be on desktop in a few days....

Because it was written.

You have to forgive Mall and also assume that many on this site are young enough that writing words on paper is a foreign concept to them.

Malk got here because of me.  It's not the first time he's been acting pompous, but he's been rather toxic lately (especially according to the guidelines).

For my high school exit exam, we had to write an essay about a hypothetical board of judges giving me a hypothetical vacation for a hypothetical contest I hypothetically won. I was so fucking tired from studying late into the night for the math portion and practicing writing essays because I didn't study the rest of the week, I decided that I didn't give two shits about a fake vacation destination.

So I wrote my essay about Guantanamo Bay.

Solid 2/3 points for spelling/grammatical errors.

Tell you about the times I've procrastinated? Eh... I'll do it later...

Oh, I have a good one. I had to write and make a five minute speech for my English class and the best speech would receive a tenner, and I really like money. I actually was going to try hard to win, but I just kind of forgot. In English class I panicked when the teacher called me up to make the speech. I went up with my copy and opened it to a blank page, and just bullshited for five minutes while trying to stay on topic. I sat down, and five minutes later the teacher announced that I had won because, and I quote, "Steve had the best and most prepared speech." It was amazing and hilarious. I guess the point of that story was the Procrastination = Profit.

I love to procrastinate! I find it easier for me to do my work when I got the pressure of having it be due soon. I find that I produce good work fast. 

I once put off writing down any of my game design ideas, for years... until the night before my interview with the only company in my geographic radius who made games... who found themselves in need of a game designer. I wrote up my first GDD overnight, and also made a four-panel (4x2) comic to illustrate the difference between a "gamer" and a casual player. Never used either, because I didn't need 'em. They hired me after a single hour-long verbal "interview"... that had already shaded into me helping fix design problems with their games.

Good times. Working for the company eventually drove me crazy, in the most literal sense, but... well, in hindsight? It was worth it. But if I'd done more of the game design work when I was younger... I could've saved myself a trip to the psych unit. Procrastination really IS the real enemy.