10 Reasons Why I Can't Procrastinate
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10 Reasons Why I Can't Procrastinate

Why would anyone do that to themselves?

Maggie O'Gara
Jun 07, 2016
University of Tulsa
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10 Reasons Why I Can't Procrastinate
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All college students procrastinate too much, right? Wrong! I don’t. I never have and I never will. Okay that’s not totally true. College did make me procrastinate a tiny bit more than I did before, but not much. I always get my work done as soon as I can, that’s just my nature. Why you ask? Well here are twelve reasons in list form in case you get lost.

  1. It makes me more anxious. Yep putting my homework off to the last minute makes me crazy anxious, and I don’t need to be any more anxious than I already am.
  2. I forget about stuff. If I put it off I forget about it. I’m used to having it done early, so if the deadline is a day away, I’ll forget because I assume I finished it already like I always do.
  3. I don’t do a good of a job on my work. If I am anxious about getting it done I don’t focus on doing a good job, I just focus on getting it done. At that point why am I even doing it if I am not performing at my best?
  4. I feel lazy. I don’t like to feel lazy therefore I don’t like to procrastinate. I’m not saying that procrastinating makes you lazy, but that’s how it makes me feel.
  5. It’s not worth it. Sure I could binge watch half a season of Mad Men, but I’ll be up half the night stressing about the work that I didn’t do instead of dreaming about marrying an advertising executive in 1960s New York.
  6. I like to take my time on my work. When I procrastinate I can’t spend the time I want to on my work, and I like to have all the time I need to get my work done.
  7. Doing all the work in one sitting it exhausting. Writing a paper the night before it’s due sounds horrible. I wouldn’t know, but I’ve seen my friends the next morning and it isn’t pretty.
  8. I feel like I cheated the system. If I crank out a report the night before it’s due I feel like it’s cheating. Don’t ask my why, but I feel like my professors could tell that I cheated on the paper.
  9. My grades are worse. I usually never got equal or better grades when I procrastinated than when I didn’t.
  10. I don’t like to do it. I just don’t like to procrastinate.
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