procrastination multimodal component

How To Procrastinate a Paper

By Wilson Bryant

Your paper is due today and you have already procrastinated it for a whole week. In order for your paper to be

finished and ready to be turned in at 11:59 you must make the correct

decisions. It will take approximately 3 hours to complete. You’ve stayed up very late the night before so you have already

slept in until 12:30 PM

The Scenario:

You’ve gotten adequate sleep but now have to go strait to class and have lost a lot of time. It’s

2:30 PM by the time you back to your dorm.

Take a break from school and play Fifa

Work on paper for an hour

You’ve successfully played 3 games of Fifa and gained zero progress on your paper.

You still haven’t eaten today.

Time: 3:10 PM

Remain hungry and work on your paper for an hour

Go eat at Chick-fil-a

You are now dangerously hungry and are forced to eat which takes 2 hours.

Time: 6:10 PM

Go to the Library to bust out the

rest of the paper

Hang out with friends in your

dorm

Congrats, you are skilled in understanding the correct balance between procrastination and taking the

initiative. You finished the paper at a reasonable hour.

Time: 8:15 PM

You are now sitting at the library one third of the way through the paper.

Time: 3:45 PM

Turn off phone and finish paper

Browse facebook and potentially get stuck

watching dumb videos that you don’t care about but still

watch for some reason

Wow, you are terrible at procrastinating. Doing the paper all at once might subdue

your creativity.

Time finished: 5:45 PM

The deadline is approaching and you aren't even halfway through the paper yet.

Time: 8:10 PM

Finish the rest of the paper at the library

Take a thirty minute shower before resuming writing

You cut it a little close, but are near the right balance of procrastination and

initiative.


The deadline is approaching and you aren't even halfway through the paper yet. You also realize that it’s been a week since you’ve worked out…

Time: 8:40 PM

Work on the paper in the

dorm

Go workout for 2 hours

Your procrastination skills are better than average but still need some work.


You finally realize that you are really in trouble…

Time: 10:40

Frantically work up until 11:59 and finish an incomplete version

Understand that you’ve already wasted all of your

time away and will just take the late grade

reduction

You are an all-star procrastinator. This is obviously crossing crossing the line. You

most likely will receive a poor grade.


You have an incredibly dangerous mix of first-team level procrastination, and sheer

laziness. Congratulations.

Time finished: Never

You’ve somehow managed to watch dumb videos for 30 minutes. You also realize that you are tired of the

current music you’ve been listening to.

Time: 4:15 PM

Ignore it and finish the paper

Create a Spotify playlist for an hour

You are a garbage procrastinator. You have way too much will power and self control to

hang with the real procrastinators.

Time finished: 6:15

It’s now 6:15 PM due to an hour long music detour and an hour long dinner break. There are still 2 hours of work left. You

also get a text from your friend saying that they are all about to play basketball.

Time: 6:15 PM

Go back to library and finish paper

Play basketball with friends

You have the best of both worlds. Enough procrastination to have fun, but also enough

will power to finish at a reasonable hour.


You just finished basketball and 11:59 is coming quicker than you would have thought. You are also very sweaty and need a shower.

Time: 8:15 PM

Go back to library sweaty and finish

paperTake a long refreshing shower

You made some procrastinators decisions but are one of a kind for choosing to write the rest of the paper drenched in sweat.


The deadline is close if you take the 2 hours of work into account.

Time: 8:45 PM

Go to library and finish paper

Lay down in bed and look at your phone for an hour


You’ve made some decisions that a world-class procrastinator would make but somehow

managed to pull it off. You are an 8/10 procrastinator.

You now realize that you are going to be cutting it really close and will most likely

not finish by the deadline of 11:59

Time: 10:00 PM

Go to the library and write as much as you can get down

Count your losses and go to downtown Athens with your friends

A brilliant job of procrastinating. If you want to complete your paper next time, don’t make the worlds dumbest

string of decisions. You did not effectively find the medium.

Time finished: 11:59 but incomplete

You showed that not only are you a world class procrastinator, but also make extremely dumb decisions

when it comes to school work. You did not effectively find the medium.

Time finished: Never

There was a car wreck on the way to Chick-fil-a and you sat in traffic for 2 hours.

Time: 6:10 PM

Go to Library and finish whole paper

Go workout

Great job finding the good middle ground between procrastination and initiative.


procrastination multimodal component

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