Don’t doubt me
One of my biggest pet peeves is when people, after me telling that I have loads to do (papers, assignments etc.), say “hope you get them done in time”. I don’t do “not on time”. I once had to turn in a paper one day after the deadline (and it was a loose dl) because I hadn’t finished it at 3 am on a day when I was just starting full-time work and waking up at 7 am.
In high school (senior high), I wrote a big geography assignment till 6 am and my alarm was set to go off at 6:15. I wrote the paper. On time. Just this week, I stayed up till 3 am (a magic hour, it seems) writing that stupid essay, but I got it done, it ended up being alright, and woke up at 7:45 to go to lectures.
It’s not about “hopefully getting things done”, it’s about how much (or little, to be precise) I get to sleep on the day before — or actually the day of — the deadline.
I’m a close-call adrenaline addict: I don’t get things done until the deadline looms close ahead. I know it’s bad for me, but it’s how I work.
I work a bit like that too – especially as far as jobs go, like when I want to apply for a job. When the deadline is 5:00 pm that day, I’m working on my resume at 4:00.
Sometimes I hope I could start the assignments earlier than the day/night before (well, sometimes I do, but the real work is always done on the night before) because sometimes it gets a little too “exciting” — wondering if I’ll get it done well enough and glancing at the clock every once in a while to see how the hours have passed yet again…
This is quite true for me too.
I couldn’t get anything done without given exact dead lines.