What's your M.O.?

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-27 03:14pm

I'm waiting for the engineers to come traipsing in here shouting all this procrastination is more proof liberal arts is for pansies. "When I was in school, we had to build a time machine when we got our assignments, just so we could start our projects in 1968, that's how long it took to finish them.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2003-02-27 05:04pm

The night before, of course.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Larz · Post by **Larz** » 2003-02-27 05:15pm

I write the intro 2 nights before its due. The body 1 night. and the Conclusion several hours before its due. Then I read it and rewrite it within that gracious 1 hour before class.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-02-27 06:36pm

Everything 12 hours before school. Oh shit... I have something due on the 10th

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-02-27 06:41pm

Suckers. I could usually get all my homework done during reading class since I read at a college level in 4th grade.

, which gives me tons of free time. On long papers during high school and college, first I would spend about 3 hours of research the first night and type it all up on a typewriter the second night. Then the rest of the week is free....

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-02-27 06:42pm

Well, I wrote my rather large history paper over a span of several days. I have three other one-page history papers to do soon, which I'll probably do in the three nights before they're due.

Of course, I finished an English paper due 7th period after taking a Latin test in 6th period, but it was only a measly two page(single spaced) assignment, and just a rough draft, to boot(final copy has to be typed + double spaced).

Oh, and I completed a Tech Ed paper that was due today during class, in between furiously sanding my dragster, and handed it in at the end of class along with my technical drawing, which I had to smuggle home last night with my dragster because I needed to redraw my new design and I didn't have the time to do it- I wound up tracing.

Oh, and before you ask, I get very good marks.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-02-27 06:49pm

Many ASVSers and SDnet denizens can vouch for my Trillian "away" message being:

"Can't chat, work due in [counter - generally under 4 hours]..."

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-02-27 06:52pm

Get it done asap. I don't like deadline projects sitting over my head.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2003-02-27 07:18pm

I do my homework several weeks after it's intended to be due, a few hours before the absolute latest day it will be accepted, if at all

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-02-27 10:46pm

Homework? What is this strange concept you refer to as "homework?"

Seriously though, I spread the work out over several days before the paper is due. I don't work well under pressure, in fact I don't function period. Need breaks!

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-03-02 05:54pm

I usually start my big reports a few days before they're due, get a first draft in a day or two, and spend the rest of the time given on improving it.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-03-02 06:00pm

Ha! Essays don't require much in the way of work. It's not like lab reports, where you have to go and perform experiments, gather data, etc. Anyone should be able to rattle one off in a night and get a reasonably good mark. I ghost-wrote a few essays when I was in university as a favour, and it never took me more than an evening to get the job done.

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-03-02 06:02pm

When I was in H.S., I either did the homework the night before or blew it off, arming myself with excuses. When I was in college, I did my homework as soon as it was assigned, except for one term paper, which I completed on the morning it was due -> got a "B" on that one.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-03-02 06:06pm

RedImperator wrote:Nothing like Adenol and panic to help get those last minute assignments done.

Aderol got my through finals last semester. I owned my multi-variable calculus final.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-02 06:20pm

Darth Wong wrote:Ha! Essays don't require much in the way of work. It's not like lab reports, where you have to go and perform experiments, gather data, etc. Anyone should be able to rattle one off in a night and get a reasonably good mark. I ghost-wrote a few essays when I was in university as a favour, and it never took me more than an evening to get the job done.

Essays are shit. Research papers are another beast entirely. "Hmm, I've got one primary source, and it's in Latin, and it's totally and utterly biased towards a known shit." Being able to produce my own primary material would have been nice (impossible without a time machine or archaeoloical dig, but nice). On the other hand, I've seen the kind of reports science and engineering majors have to write. Fuck that shit. You guys don't get paid enough for that kind of nonsense.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-03-02 06:23pm

Darth Wong wrote:Ha! Essays don't require much in the way of work. It's not like lab reports, where you have to go and perform experiments, gather data, etc. Anyone should be able to rattle one off in a night and get a reasonably good mark. I ghost-wrote a few essays when I was in university as a favour, and it never took me more than an evening to get the job done.

Depending on the essay it can take a LOT of time.

I did one last year that took me three weeks of near continuous work because I read through more than 5000 pages of material for it. Then had to cull a 4000 word draft to 2500 word finished product.

Some of them however are very very easy to do.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-03-02 06:26pm

RedImperator wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:Ha! Essays don't require much in the way of work. It's not like lab reports, where you have to go and perform experiments, gather data, etc. Anyone should be able to rattle one off in a night and get a reasonably good mark. I ghost-wrote a few essays when I was in university as a favour, and it never took me more than an evening to get the job done.
Essays are shit. Research papers are another beast entirely. "Hmm, I've got one primary source, and it's in Latin, and it's totally and utterly biased towards a known shit." Being able to produce my own primary material would have been nice (impossible without a time machine or archaeoloical dig, but nice). On the other hand, I've seen the kind of reports science and engineering majors have to write. Fuck that shit. You guys don't get paid enough for that kind of nonsense.

Yes, thats the kind of essay I mentioned in my post. Had to do a paper on "Why did Constantine turn to Christianity?" Every source is inherently biased to begin with, not to mention the biases that are picked up from years of translations... GAH!

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-02 06:28pm

IG-88E wrote:I wait until I'm in the right mood.

And what mood is that, you ask?

Last-minute panic.

One for the C&H crowd!

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-02 06:51pm

weemadando wrote:
RedImperator wrote:Yes, thats the kind of essay I mentioned in my post. Had to do a paper on "Why did Constantine turn to Christianity?" Every source is inherently biased to begin with, not to mention the biases that are picked up from years of translations... GAH!

I had a nice, big fat 30 pager on Alaric the Visigoth's campaign against Rome. Practically my only primary source narrative had a hardon for one particular Praetorian Prefect who's almost universally condemned in the secondary sources. That was 9 different kinds of fun.

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » 2003-03-02 09:30pm

In school I always left everything to the last minute. Usually later. Had plenty of excuses and relied on my aura of trustworthiness to get me through. Nice thing about yr 12 weas to get an extension on any assignment you weren't supposed to ask the teacher that set it, but another teacher, you always got a 3 day extension, this opened up 'bargaining oppurtunities' with the teacher that set the assignment. If I know that an assignment counts for little or nothing I just won't do it. At uni, well I stayed slack, but i get the work done.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-03-02 09:38pm

Dalton wrote:Night before, duh.

absolutely. Ive got 3 speeches and 3 reports and two quizzes due tomorrow.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-03-02 09:40pm

Ha! Essays don't require much in the way of work. It's not like lab reports, where you have to go and perform experiments, gather data, etc. Anyone should be able to rattle one off in a night and get a reasonably good mark. I ghost-wrote a few essays when I was in university as a favour, and it never took me more than an evening to get the job done.

Why the hell do you think most of us can get them done the night before?

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-03-02 09:56pm

The night before of course. Its not that I forget either, I'm just a lazy son of a bitch. I'll get home, a couple days after its assigned, go "oh yeah, i gotta do an essay," and then immediatley log on SD.Net (Damn you SD.Net!

) and mess around there for the rest fo the day. I'll tell you if its one thing I love doing its putting stuff off.

Incidently, I just finished writing up my report about Nazis and stuff about an hour ago. Can you guess when its due? Tomarrow morning of course.

Sokar · Post by **Sokar** » 2003-03-02 10:40pm

Frank_Scenario wrote:Hell, I have a twelve-page essay due tomorrow that I haven't even started to do the reading on yet, much less start writing.

I find that the less work I do, the better my grades are. Eerie. Weird.

This same effect happens to me as well. Being a History Major(Education) over the course of my college career I've written something like 25+ major papers. Everyone that I started early , or finished early, got me the lowest grades EVER!! The ones I pull out of may ass the night before and day they are due, A'a all around

I'll never understand it, add that to the wosrse I think thew paper is , the better I do. I just turned in a 5 page write up on a article about Gandhi for my South Asia class, I was sure it was TOTAL shit, Worst. Paper. EVER, I got an A, and my instructor really liked it and encouraged me to do my final paper on that topic.........

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-03-02 10:44pm

I usually write a bit, but then lose interest. Then I panic right before it's due then finish it.

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