You're about to be dosed with some hard-hitting journalism.
Procrastination is bad! At least, for me it is. When I'm under a lot of pressure I slow way down and forget how normal things are supposed to work. I bet you can guess this has not worked out to my advantage when I waited until two days before my term paper was due to start working on it. I did a grade calculation, and if I get a C on this paper, full credit in all of my quizzes, and do really well on the final exam. I'll be able to escape with a 91%. Don't get me wrong- I love this class. I really do. British Literature is really freaking cool. It's just I'm so bad at planning and managing my time I wrote an introduction yesterday, outlined this morning, and have been writing (or driving or cooking) most of this afternoon. This blog post is an exercise to prove to my brain that I can do this. I can make words come out of my brain and express coherent ideas. I do not have writer's block. I have "I'm tired of my topic because we covered this at the beginning of the semester and my first draft is rough in several places" block. This is the struggle with working at a writing center. We know all of the things we need to do- have a clear thesis statement, make specific claims, back those claims up with evidence, give your topic some outer significance, but sometimes we have no flipping idea how to apply those things to our own writing. It's been like a year since I wrote an essay, or at least it feels like it. This is a lot of work for twenty four hours. Now I'm looking up the menu for my restaurant options for tonight. I am not going to want to cook. To go to my apartment or stay here.... either way I think I need to eat before I finish this up. I have two paragraphs of content left, I think, then more should be added when I revise. I might end up reworking my introduction and adding summary before I start my comparison. I really think some Panera mac and cheese with a sandwich might be conducive to success. Let's find out.
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