Deadlines :/

Anyone who knows me personally will tell you that I procrastinate. It's not that I'm totally unwilling to put effort and time into my work, I do, I'm just horrible at spreading work out over time. I tend to work better when forced to sit down and just write. If I have three weeks to do something, I know that it will get done in the last few nights because I'll have been sitting at my computer rewriting the first sentence for the two and a half weeks, that's just how I work. So when we got this unit and had such a sprawling due date, I ended up with way too much work to do this past week. On one hand, it has been really effective in getting me to appreciate the time we get to work in class (I don't think I've ever been this productive before), but it's not great for my stress levels.

These past few weeks, it has been especially hard for me to spread out my work. Mountains of extra-curriculars and cramming for the upcoming SATs have left me with little time to do anything but play catch-up with all of my classes. It's not an excuse for the early stages of my work, but it is part of my problem.

I do far better in classes with short-term due dates, and since I have found that these  three week deadlines are not working for me, I have decided to put matters into my own hands. When I realized that I was falling behind, I decided to set my own personal checkpoints and timelines. I gave myself a goal for each day, and so far I have been able to keep up with my plans. Using my new time charts, I should even be done with my unit on time, something that I wouldn't have been able to accomplish just a few months ago.

So I may not be totally over my habit of cramming, but I think that this unit has helped me reach a better place with my time management struggles.