Lucy and Vayda here.
It's T- minus 2 hours until we’re attending the long night against procrastination. Shout out to Francie for telling us several times, since October, about the blog post for this event and we both were so excited to write it. However up until this morning we had basically given up on trying to even write anything because let's face it, we’re just a mess. But then we’re sitting here at like 6:45 pm, the night of, not doing anything because we’re going to this thing where we’ll do our work, in theory….. So we decided to do this together. :) Procrastination. What a word. What does it mean to you? Usually everyone can agree we’ve all dealt with it. Listen, we’ve all been hovering over our laptops and books at 9 pm having planned the whole evening to write a paper, that’s due at 12 am, but all we’ve got is a thesis. Here’s how we’ve experienced procrastination. Lucy: So It’s Thursday night, and I’ve been blessed with no classes on Fridays, so my weekend starts now. Every Thursday I make the plan. You know the plan. To do all my work, rewrite all my notes, finish my papers, and organize everything. It’s a good plan. But then I get a notification, from Netflix, recommending a Christmas movie they just released, and I'm thinking, I can’t just ignore that. So one Christmas movie turns into another, and I'm suddenly down this rabbit hole of cheesy, borderline awful movies. But that’s just Thursday night. I have three more days to get it together. You’d think somewhere in those days I’d pick up one of those textbooks I spent all my money on, but instead, I realize my room is messy. Or my car is dirty, or my bed is too comfy to leave. Plus every Sunday morning my family and I usually go for a hike. Afterwards my blood's pumping, and my brain is cracked out from those endorphins, which makes it probably a perfect time to finally start on those assignments right? I know it is, my family knows it is, and yet, I end up sorting through old family pictures or something unproductive and unnecessary. Then I’ll get a message from Vayda, usually around 7 pm Sunday night, she asks me how I'm doing, and if I I’ve done everything I planned to do. I send back, “I’ll try again next weekend.” but I never do. Vayda: After a very long Sociology class on a Monday morning at 8 AM, I walk out of class and start running in the -1c weather to my vehicle usually parked in the very back row. Now don’t get me wrong, I often tell myself to leave my house very early to get a decent parking spot so it doesn’t feel like I’m running a marathon to get to every class. But I often leave so it gives me enough time to roll up at 8 am. Half the time I’m in bed and it’s 7 am and I have to leave in 20 mins and usually lying in bed versus getting a decent parking spot always takes the win. This is an EVERYDAY occurrence where I am walking (running) to my car and I hop in and see the disgusting mess of what almost looks like my room. For some reason, I like to leave everything in my car and let it pile up…. I will let it sit there for days, weeks, months and some of my stuff has been living in the car for probably a year. One day Lucy jumps in my car and can’t help but mention the mess that has taken over. I basically tell her to “ignore it.” After the multiple times of me telling Lucy to just “ignore it” she was fed up. Lucy forced me to drive all the way to Walmart; we picked up a bunch of cleaning tools. We then gave my car a beautiful soak, leaving her with a sparkly finish. We ripped back to Lucy’s house where she tore my car apart. Literally tearing everything apart. She was throwing things left, right and center and I just felt so vulnerable in this position. After a devastating hour of Lucy ripping my car and I apart, I felt a tad better. Being able to scrub and sanitize my car, I felt some relief and lightheartedness. Many of us can say they have experienced a lot of assignments, homework and tests that are just being thrown at you. Like my car, I tend to see all those things and just shove it away, and then all of it just piles up and I sometimes, actually almost always forget about it. We would just like to thank OC for putting together this evening/morning to potentially help us tackle our bad habits, especially during this difficult month. Shout out to some of our professors who made it down to offer their expertise for us. We definitely need it. Who knows, we might actually get some things done or…………
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