Procrastinators Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from chronic procrastination.

The all-too-familiar all nighter -_-

10 April, 2012 - 9:39pm - kim

What have I done...

I kept putting projects off.  Now I have 3 things due tomorrow, here I am at 10:34 pm. The good news is that I did get started a couple of hours ago after looking on this site and reading other posts. I don't know about any of you, but I have this horrible habit of doing short bursts of work and then rewarding myself with more than double the time I did work for. Not exactly productive.  This is all a work in progress.  I really have to fight the loneliness but knowing that I can come here is better than nothing.  So after I post this, it's back to work for me because I have no choice! 

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Hello Kim, and welcome! I

rednotdead - 13 Apr 2012 - 1:00pm

Hello Kim, and welcome!

I can absolutely, totally relate to your habit. For me, it started in late highschool, when I would regularly stay up to ungodly hours of the morning to finish even the most minimal amount of schoolwork, often starting work around midnight.

In college, I've done little better: in the past few years I've pretty much locked myself into this habit of pulling an all-nighter if I have a major assignment due, even if the assignment would normally take only several hours. There hasn't been a single test I've taken that I didn't stay up the entire night cramming for.

I've tried to legitimize the problem by telling myself that it's becasue I'm a "night person"... but honestly there is no excuse to hide the fact the problem is in every way one of procrastination.

Hi guys

kim - 11 Apr 2012 - 12:05pm

The good news is I did complete one thing last night at around 2am.  I had to go to sleep because I just couldn't stay up all night.  I have a couple of hours now to work on my other two projects, and have decided I'm going to use my last absence from class to stay home and work on it.  I do have to finish it today though or I will keep putting it off.  One of the worst things about procrastinating is that when push comes to shove, I end up having to come up with BS excuses to cover for myself and I feel like such a horrible person afterwards.

same boat

overdue - 11 Apr 2012 - 10:07am

just wanted to say im in the same boat and im with you guys ... 

hope everyone is making some progress. i hope i will too. 

Solidarity.

hidden_motives - 11 Apr 2012 - 6:25am

I've spent the last four or so nights awake but mostly because of one day that I just stayed up too late doing nothing that messed up my circadian rhythm.

The loneliness does suck. I have an exam in two days too. I feel like I'm close to prepared with only one chapter to go

And I'm really close to failing a course T_T which is probably a worse position than you're in. Need an 80 to pass D:

All-nighters

kaoba - 11 Apr 2012 - 3:07am

I don't know if you are still there, but I am up at 3am to finish something that was due on Monday...

Good luck with finishing all your work!