Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Why waiting until the last minute to do your blogs sucks: A reflection

First, it sucks because you have to do a lot of reading and educating yourself on what the parameters of your assigned blog of that class are concerned with. Which article do you have to read, how long does the blog have to be, why is the article 10 pages long, are all questions that you have to answer before you can even sit down and write out something... anything to achieve the 100 word minimum and be able to continue onto the next blog that you didn't do because you're not comfortable with blogging.
The next reason why waiting until the last minute sucks is that this is your last class. You should be able to calmly gather your things and walk to class, breezing through your day without a care in the world. Instead, you are sitting behind your computer, struggling to smash out as many words as you can to make a point while constantly realizing that you spelled something wrong. Since waiting until the end of your document is just unacceptable to you, you stop and correct everything you made a mistake on. This only adds an extra 10 or 15 minutes to your blog writing process.
Lastly, the biggest thing that sucks about waiting until the last minute is knowing that you had all the time in the world to do something simple like type out three paragraphs and hit "publish post," but no, you spent all your time working, or in other class, or if you're privileged... sleeping. But it is all OK in the end as long as you get all of them done before class is finished and you end up getting a C or worse even though you've done all the work for the semester. All of them except Blog Entry 4 (because the pdf has been removed from the website) So in the future don't be a dumb-ass, don't pull a me, and do your damn blogs before the last class!

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