Since it is the last week to work on this project, I guess it would be a good time for me to draw the connection between what I have done in the past and what I should do in the future. A few weeks ago in history, we had a 6 paged essay to write over a book we had read outside of class. Well I must have thought I was super woman or something because I waited until two days before it was due to write a draft, take it to my professor to edit, and revise it accordingly. Well, unlike I had hoped for, my professor basically told me to re-write my paper. Now I had heard the constant lectures about not to pull an all nighter and that your brain goes to sleep after a certain amount of time, but I was left with no option. My point in including this story into my commonplace book is not to fault my first (and last) all nighter, but to remind myself that this wasn’t a good idea. When I was looking at my rough draft today, I thought to myself, “DONT DO IT….DONT YOU DARE PUT IT OFF!” So, I am going to publish this post and go work on my paper, because it is a miracle my friends are still my friends and I am still functioning normally after my days of running on no sleep.
Not only did I get anxiety when thinking about that terrible experience, but I was reminded that I had a huge learning moment from this mistake on a much larger scale. The first thing that popped into my head was my study habits. I used to do all of my studying through out the day and in hour increments. The problem was, I would do this the day before the test. While I was doing okay in my classes, I knew that it is only going to get more challenging from here on out. I think that drawing that connection between procrastination of writing papers and studying for exams was a turning point for me. Since then, my test grades have gone up and I haven’t been as stressed while taking the test.