In school, did you procrastinate when you had a big writing assignment?

I was never good at writing essays. I'm still not. It's very rare I finish any job I start.

Every single time!!
Sometimes, even borrowing a friends notes....or on occassion, their finished piece. (We all did it!!)

One time comes to mind. I asked a good pal of mine (who always usually borrowed my stuff last minute) if i could use his assignment to do mine as the work had been set weeks ago and id lost my notes. So, he obliged...but was none too pleased when i got a much higher grade than him...yet it was him ( for a change) that had put in the work!! 😂🤣

In school, when composing a paper,
I always would pull the same caper,
By waiting to write
'Til the very last night,
And burning the 3 a.m. taper. 😯

Sometimes. I mostly struggled when it was a "write an essay about anything" assignment in high school. Sometimes I put too much work into the research portion of it and then didn't have enough time to do well at the writing it out part.

I hated essays because my teacher was very inconsistent in grading and Most essays had to do with whatever piece of literature we were reading, and then was thrown into "wrote about a modern topic" land, and the format was more loose and less formal.

Suddenly Most of my classmates would be writing an essay about why strawberry cheesecake was the best dessert and I'd be in shock, because I felt essays ought to be about something scientifically important and worth reading, or something about literature that was stupid and trival about the Great Gatsby that no one will ever care about.

I wanted to write something worthwhile, and wanted to be a journalist and tries to marry reporting with essay writing, which didn't work real well. I was drawn to writing about federal disaster relief or grade curving, drug addiction in high schoolers, etc. And my.essays tended to be similar to the way alot of internet articles are now, and sprinkled in the supporting information like you would an essay. It would take me forever because I'd be researching much longer then my classmates.

I did not get good grades.

It wasn't until the year was done that I figured out that all the teacher cared about was that we had periods in all the right places on the citation page and that we had thesis statement "that caught an audience's attention". He also did not like my topics. Would have been nice to know his grading criteria ahead of time.

He once failed me for missing two periods on the citation page. Lol

If I had to do his class all over again, I'd write about menstrual topics and focus on the punctuation on the citation page and creative thesis statements and let him figure out some other way to give me a bad grade and complain about the topic. :D

Not with a mother who was a teacher. Somehow, she always managed to check on our assignments to see if we needed help. And she had no trouble calling our teachers to check, particularly when we were in elementary school.

ALLLL-WAYS 😂😂😂😂 man I hated school so bad hahaha and what's really funny and stupid, is that if I had it to do over again I was studying my head off and make the best grades, knowing what I know now.

Yeah, almost every time. I do realize that putting off something difficult or dreaded is not wise or helpful in the end...yet I still do it, sometimes.

Always did but pulled it off. I was always always somehow for " inspiration" and when it came I wrote furiously ....
I never cheated though

No. Writing was like candy for me. I loved it...and often wished I could spend more time writing papers.

Yes. I did my best work at 4 a.m. the morning it was due.

No I didn’t. I wanted to get it over with and not have it nag my conscience. The boy procrastinated one time with his homework when he was in 7th grade and I had to take him to the library at the last minute so he could get it done on time. Took away his Ipad for about 3 days to make him think of never doing that again.

No, i was never a last minute person.

Often.
I was capable of executing the task, but the research and revision was tedious.
I once put a 7 or 8 page paper off until the night before, it required an oral prsentation as well.

I pulled it off...somehow..and got a B.

The panic on that one wasn't worth procrastinating again.

Best press release ever.

In high school because i did not care. In college I did not because i cared (wanted a diploma) . People in general prioritize things they find important. I think many times (not always) procrastination is a representation of apathy (or near apathy)

Not my forte.

Kinda always lol

I was one of "those" that completed papers, etc. early and started studying for finals weeks ahead.

I was very good at doing things at the last minute.....

Of course!

Sometimes

I have that tee shirt!

Yes I was a very bad procrastinator when I was a teen.

No. Consequences Never ever let me think on those lines.

Maybe some day I’ll get around to answering your question

No. I was excited about writing so I jumped right on it.

No, I loved writing!

I only did that if it was an assignment in math 😂

nope - finished as quickly as I could

Yes. I was the master of the "All-Nighter Term Paper".....also known as the "Oh Shit is that due Tommorow?" Paper

Every damn time!

I was a very studious, clean- cut, straight A student.
I used to beat myself up.. 😄

During the 10 mandatory years I would do them immediately so I wouldn't have to worry about then at a later point.

After that I wouldn't do them at all due to fear of failing. Stupid ass excuse, but I blame it on my Avoidant Personality Disorder.

I loved writing. Thing is, I couldn't be trusted to stay on the writing assignment in question.

Yes

Always. Or just didn't do them. I hated everything to do with essays ans writing assignments. To this day as an adult I still beeleive them to be nothing but an enomrous waste of time for everyone involved and proof teachers just hate letting students have any amount of time to enjoy life and persue intersts.



The worst is when they wanted to write several paragraphs and 700 words describing something that could be summed up in four or fuve sentences. Which quite literally was every writing assignment I was ever given.