My Unflattering Procrastination

Everyone has at least one thing that they hate about themselves. This is my extreme procrastination for me. Whenever I have homework, a task that is boring, or something that I simply do not wish to do, I will always wait until the last minute to complete it. I really do not enjoy this fact. It often causes me to stay up extremely late, or get grades that definitely  could have been better if I had a little more time to spend on something. One of my most severe cases of procrastination was my freshman year science fair project.

All throughout the process of the science fair I was handing things in on the last minute. I had no idea what my experiment was going to be until the night before I had to submit an idea for one. This last minute ordeal was also true of the lab report, and the display poster. The worst of all was the poster. It was the night before science fair and I didn't have a poster board, and much less an idea of what to put on that poster board. Yet somehow I managed to get the poster done at 3 am, and get four hours of sleep. Even more amazing is the fact that I earned second place in the science fair. This was both amazing and disappointing. I was amazed that my last minute project could have earned second place. I was disappointed because it will always haunt me that maybe if I had worked for more time I could have won. However, it doesn't bother me that I got second because I knew that my experiment was very good even if it was done at the last minute.

I somehow have very good luck when I do things at the last minute. It is a punishment that I procrastinate so much, but it is a blessing that I work extremely well under pressure. These two things combine, and the result is usually something very good. I will wait until the last minute to do something, but then I  do an excellent job on it because I know its the last minute. Sometimes I feel as though if I did an a task early, I would do a lazy or bad job on it. I always study for every test only on the night before, even on finals, and every high school essay I have written thus far was written on the night before it was due. It is definitely not a good idea for others to try and follow this method because it most likely will turn out terrible. In order to be successful at what I do you must not give up even when its 2 am, have a strong desire to get everything done, and have some very good luck. I am not saying that procrastination is a good thing, but it is just the way I am. It works out  for me only because I work better under pressure. I always try very hard to break this habit, but I haven't been successful thus far. As evidence of this one only needs to look at what time I published this post. (2:09 am)