Considering we are in the mist of the all consuming monster that is finals week I find it somewhat appropriate to write about the chaos that a student feels during this horrid week. It is also happens to be the only thing that I can manage to think about, therefore, I feel that writing this might be somewhat therapeutic. So I will catalogue the epic story that is finals week. Prior to the madness: You know the feeling you get before an obligation that is imperative but will bring great agony. You try not to think about it but it lingers, you put it off but you feel guilty, you tell yourself it’s good to relax before hand but you can’t stop thinking about it. That is the week prior to finals week. You are almost paralyzed by the magnitude …show more content…
Assignments are written in a check list according to priority and you have your exam times set. This is when you take a deep breath and think to yourself “It won’t be to hard” in an attempt to make yourself believe that it’s just another week. Middle of the madness: Days in the library turn to nights that fade to mornings before you retire for a quick shower and a short nap. Then it’s back to the books again or to class for a test. At this point coffee replaces water and finding a decent spot in the library is almost as difficult as staying awake long enough to focus. You often have to remind yourself that there is an end it will all be worth it. You visualize the effort needed to turn that A- to and A ect… A thought that then causes great stress due to uncertainty that the end result will be what you want. End of the madness: At this point motivation is faltering, however, you are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The task list grows shorter and there are now many scribbles over the words assigned to each task. Things are beginning to look good. This is a dangerous time. Being comfortable and getting lethargic greatly affects the ability to put the same amount of the the effort into work. Had it been done at the beginning of the week the adrenalin would consume the task that now seems
This is how you train your unconscienced to kick in creatively.” (Lamott 96) This is overall good advice for most. Some or all of us get distracted by many things chores, life, kids, work, cat that won’t stop meowing even a simple list that Lammot states is “Nurse Ratchet like listing of things that must be done right this moment” (96). The author says that we need to ignore all distractions no matter how much our brain may scream at us to get the other work done or something bad will happen we must persevere to finish or at least start the paper. Or else it will never get done and you will be putting together a Frankenstein like paper at two in the morning.
Orientation, introduction, moving in classes, fraternity exams midterm finals, all flying by with the roar of drag car screaming past you on the side. That is how this past semester has felt like. So far everything has been a blur, "tunnel visioned" towards the end that is now wider as I start to comprehend all of the emotions and information from this past semester. Sitting here in front of my computer finishing on of the last essays I will write this semester about the thing that I have done this semester. Tired, hungry and wanting to go home have been the reoccurring themes so far in my college career.
Your schedule will be as open as a barren desert. You will relieve all your stress by procrastinating. You don’t have to worry about the assignment until the day l before it is due, and this is a good thing. as you can zone out and focus on the activity at hand whether that’s browsing online, watching a movie, or hanging out with friends. The assignments will begin to haunt you at first; this will be a challenge that everyone faces, yet you need to realize that paper isn’t going to write itself, and neither are you; at least, not yet. That paper has a long life ahead of it before it needs to get turned in, why make it suffer? Speedily add to it the day before to ensure that no pain goes to the paper. In class, you don’t have to listen, but rather just act like you doing work. You can just look at the notes, that the teacher wrote when you get home. If you forget, it isn’t the end of the world you still have a day to study; the test is tomorrow. Procrastination is the gift that keeps giving. The more you procrastinate, the easier it will get, the more your grades will increase, and the more you’ll have fun. Yet, don’t get too carried away. You must procrastinate but still must complete your assignments. School is important, yet your activities outweigh the need for completion of assignments, so they can wait. What you need and want should come
I would like to say that I sit down at my desk overlooking the neighborhood, three weeks before the due date, with a freshly brewed cup of green tea, after just having woken up not to an alarm, but to my body’s own internal clock. I would like to say all of this was true. Unfortunately, my life is not that glamours. Even as I write this it is the night before the due date and we’re just about to hit 8:30 pm. I hold a strict 9 pm bed time. The truth is, the stress of the night before excites me. Whenever I receive an assignment, I have every intention to get a head start. In my near fifteen years of education, this has never once actually happened. Creatures of habit, we are. So this is where it all begins. The night, sometimes the day, before a due date with knots in my stomach and without a thought in my
Rushing to complete an assignment will not get them anywhere. Students do not realize that rushing to finish their homework or to finish a task will put so much stress on themselves. Being stressed out does not feel good and students procrastinating will most likely be stressed out over their work. Students also may not get a lot of sleep because they waited until the last minute to start working on their work. Sleep is a very important thing to any human being, because if students do not get enough sleep then they will be falling asleep in class and not paying
I had survived the first half of the school year and finals week was here. I had projects from all classes, tests to study for, and essays to write. I wondered to myself, “How am I going to manage all of this?”. I was stressed out to the maximum. I had the urge to poison myself with bleach and escape this prison. I was so ready to just give up.
It involves going to class which most definitely leads to me seeing something interesting and then getting lost in an area of campus I don’t recognize. In class I can learn just like everyone else, it just takes more concentration and focus than the average student, and even then I still get distracted, missing an entire part of the lesson. To summarize it in Helen Rice’s words on a BBC interview (September 23, 2016) “I wake up every morning a new woman. I think, ‘Today is the day I’m going to do everything right and get on top of the important things instead of [procrastinating]. And every night I go to bed a broken woman because it’s all gone wrong again and I haven’t done any of it.
Narrative Therapy was developed to help people separate themselves from their problems. The idea is that this will help the person use the skills that they already possess to minimize the problems that exist in their everyday lives. The Narrative Therapy approach was developed by Social Workers Michael White (Australia) and David Epston (New Zealand) during the 1970s-1980s. “White proclaimed is work to be exclusively that of ‘rich story development’ “(Gallant).
...rs tend to overestimate the degree of unpleasantness of a task” (Lay, 46). Procrastination is a problem that when left unchecked can cause serious problems in every aspect of a person’s life. The solution for students can be as easy as sticking to a goal or as hard as denying themselves a prize when they missed the deadline on a project. The type of solution a person uses depends on what works best for that student, but a schedule to help stay goal positioned never hurt.
The feeling of an eternity overwhelmed me, as the blaring sounds of the machine took over my feeble body. The feeling of not knowing what was wrong with me was just the beginning of the struggle until two months later, the solution presented itself. Ending freshman year on a high note filled me with excitement for sophomore year. I was eager to continue as well as I did, but I would not know what was ahead of me. As the year rolls around, I did well to continue succeeding in school, but in a span of a few months the changes were drastic.
All students do before a test is study. From my experiences, I never have enough time to study. Students generally have little time to “ be kids “with the amount of time preparing for a test. You don’t have time to do your normal activities or to handle things you must face in your everyday life. At times, it does become very overwhelming and even frustrating.
This lack of motivation leads me to the first factor in emotional
Alright, finals week is literally right around the corner and if you're anything like me, most of your finals consist of writing an essay. If your professors were kind, they already gave you that prompt. But if they're secretly Satan, you are sitting here in an attempt to keep yourself from having a meltdown. I understand your pain and so, here are a few ways to mentally prepare yourself to conquer these final essays. One of the main issues with the writing process is procrastination, AKA the mindset of "Due tomorrow? Do tomorrow." A way to conquer your issues with procrastination is to set yourself daily goals and reward yourself when those goals are met. If your procrastination is happening because of feeling overwhelmed by how many finals you have, you need to focus on which final is due before the other one. Prioritize your finals and once you complete the one, reward yourself and move on to the next final. I know it's a lot of work but it will be worth it in the end. I know C's get degrees but don't you just love that feeling you get when you see an A or a B I know I do
Everything for a year had been leading up to this point and here I was in the middle of the happiest place on earth in tears because my friends had abandoned me in the middle of Disney on the senior trip.
“Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.