How I Did It

There are many things you learn throughout your University career. One of those being, why procrastination never works out. Year after year, essay after essay, I almost consistently tell myself that waiting until the last minute to do an assignment worth a large chunk of your grade is wrong. Needless to say, myself and countless other students seem to be up at various hours at night, the night before our assignment is due.

Thus, my slightly comedic and very much disturbing story of how I wrote an essay, last night, in less than 14 hours. I am now going to attempt to reiterate it to you and to myself, to the best of my ability, off of 4 hours of sleep, in order to maybe, just maybe, create a mental note that this is not a good idea.

It all started at around 8 o clock last night where I decided it was about time to start. I got to writing – if you can even call it that, and tried to make out an intro paragraph with an at least semi reliable thesis. That lasted about 30 minutes, 25 of which were spent staring at either my screen, my notebook or my cat. Note: Looking up pictures of the movie based on the book you’re writing on, does not count as research.

This went on for a couple hours, with only slight distractions to eat, press f5 on my Facebook page and send random messages to my boyfriend. I find it humorous when my essay word count goes up by 200 words every couple hours, but my MSN conversation windows are a mass collage of my purple font, for pages on end. After sending a couple “UGHHHHHH” or “GUHHHHH” messages to my partner in crime (Sherwin), I decided I’d better keep writing.

Somewhere around midnight I decided it’d be a good idea to stretch my legs. Stretching is good, right? Wrong! I fell asleep, only to wake up with my cat head butting me for attention.

Note: When preparing to stay up all night writing an essay, lock up all blankets, pillows and comfortable looking objects (including your cat). Coziness is the forbidden fruit to essay writing.

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