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*GLARES at PM*
Happy belated birthday, Kaiba.
*huggles* Lemme find a present... Aayaya: present
Heh: <span class="ev_code_WHITE">I... really don't know what YuGiOh is all about or what the guy looks like, but I tried to do the guy "with the hair." XD Whatever, my sad excuse of a virtual Birthday present.</span>
I FINISHED MY REPORT AND POSTER!!! Now to do my speech, which is pretty much an extended version of an already written and printed outline. I have homework in language arts and a test in history, but the test I can't worry about -- I've done as much as I can. *squee!* IT'S CIRCLE!!! Yeah, Slipknot again. Anyway, language arts... everyone is mad at the teacher. We had a vocab quiz on Friday. There was a word box with the 20 words we studied and then 15 questions. About half were fill in the blanks with sentences. The sentences didn't help at all; almost _any_ word could fit into several. And Monday she yelled at our class saying, "we have a lot of bad grades. You should be studying!" Students from some of her other language arts classes were complaining about the same thing. And she just doesn't get it. And yeah, this was a teach I liked at the beginning of the year. Kaiba, mine was the 13th. XD Friday the 13th.
So I'll talk about procrastination. What fun. Long deadlines like what I had for my geosystems project don't work for me. Not at all. A paper I could get done in two days, but I get several weeks, and if I don't watch myself, I'll try to do it the day before it's due and at 9:00. Pressure and stress are two different things. Stress is what I feel until the presentation is over with. Pressure is until I finish working on the parts of the presentation. Stress overwhelms. Pressure motivates... in it's own way. Stress: "I'm never going to get this done -- I'll fail." Pressure: "If I don't get this done, I'll fail."
So here's something that does work with long deadlines. I asked on the bus if the report had to be due on the 23rd of the day of the presentation. E replied the day of the presentation. I give mine in two days. Whereas I thought I'd have the weekend also. (!!!) I came home thinking, I need to get this done _now_. With a few interruptions, I finished 3/4ths of my report in two hours, went downstairs, saw that there was a relevant article in a magazine, and typed up more about the importance of knowing about hurricanes, mentioning the article and how it affects us. Then I cut it out. Before I actually started on my report, though, I did one of my weird things. They're not good for getting my project done, but they're kinda good for doing other stuff.
Weird Thing:
Began typing
I tried to find the guidelines for the geos project in my binder.
Started to sort through and organize/ clean out papers in binder
Got more blank paper because I was low
Passed through kitchen, got an orange
Cleaned off living room table so I'd have room for my orange
Remembered project (!)
So back on topic. Ooh, but I forget what direction I was going in... whatever. I might just contradict myself, but I'll *try* not to.
The best way to not get distracted and do something else is to... not do anything else. As soon as you get home, don't read, don't get on the computer, don't play outside, don't watch TV. Do the homework first. Usually if I read, I'll think about my book. While working, if I start to work at all, I'll think: "As soon as I'm done, I'll go read..." Or: just a few more pages; I can do this later. Or: I'll stop to read.
You know you're reading. Just don't. Don't delay in starting your project.
Wooh, some help I am. As if. XD
Happy belated birthday, Kaiba.
*huggles* Lemme find a present... Aayaya: presentHeh: <span class="ev_code_WHITE">I... really don't know what YuGiOh is all about or what the guy looks like, but I tried to do the guy "with the hair." XD Whatever, my sad excuse of a virtual Birthday present.</span>
I FINISHED MY REPORT AND POSTER!!! Now to do my speech, which is pretty much an extended version of an already written and printed outline. I have homework in language arts and a test in history, but the test I can't worry about -- I've done as much as I can. *squee!* IT'S CIRCLE!!! Yeah, Slipknot again. Anyway, language arts... everyone is mad at the teacher. We had a vocab quiz on Friday. There was a word box with the 20 words we studied and then 15 questions. About half were fill in the blanks with sentences. The sentences didn't help at all; almost _any_ word could fit into several. And Monday she yelled at our class saying, "we have a lot of bad grades. You should be studying!" Students from some of her other language arts classes were complaining about the same thing. And she just doesn't get it. And yeah, this was a teach I liked at the beginning of the year. Kaiba, mine was the 13th. XD Friday the 13th.
So I'll talk about procrastination. What fun. Long deadlines like what I had for my geosystems project don't work for me. Not at all. A paper I could get done in two days, but I get several weeks, and if I don't watch myself, I'll try to do it the day before it's due and at 9:00. Pressure and stress are two different things. Stress is what I feel until the presentation is over with. Pressure is until I finish working on the parts of the presentation. Stress overwhelms. Pressure motivates... in it's own way. Stress: "I'm never going to get this done -- I'll fail." Pressure: "If I don't get this done, I'll fail."So here's something that does work with long deadlines. I asked on the bus if the report had to be due on the 23rd of the day of the presentation. E replied the day of the presentation. I give mine in two days. Whereas I thought I'd have the weekend also. (!!!) I came home thinking, I need to get this done _now_. With a few interruptions, I finished 3/4ths of my report in two hours, went downstairs, saw that there was a relevant article in a magazine, and typed up more about the importance of knowing about hurricanes, mentioning the article and how it affects us. Then I cut it out. Before I actually started on my report, though, I did one of my weird things. They're not good for getting my project done, but they're kinda good for doing other stuff.
Weird Thing:
Began typing
I tried to find the guidelines for the geos project in my binder.
Started to sort through and organize/ clean out papers in binder
Got more blank paper because I was low
Passed through kitchen, got an orange
Cleaned off living room table so I'd have room for my orange
Remembered project (!)
So back on topic. Ooh, but I forget what direction I was going in... whatever. I might just contradict myself, but I'll *try* not to.
The best way to not get distracted and do something else is to... not do anything else. As soon as you get home, don't read, don't get on the computer, don't play outside, don't watch TV. Do the homework first. Usually if I read, I'll think about my book. While working, if I start to work at all, I'll think: "As soon as I'm done, I'll go read..." Or: just a few more pages; I can do this later. Or: I'll stop to read.
You know you're reading. Just don't. Don't delay in starting your project.
Wooh, some help I am. As if. XD
If you go by its name, that was on topic. As for delays... I don't know if you guys get tazos (aka: pogs, milk caps...) in chips and that, but we do. recently one of the companies has released a series of chinese food flavoured chips and you get little cards with sayings and that on them. The first one I got was: 'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day afer.' What sort of a thing is that to say to a uni student :O!!! <span class="ev_code_WHITE">nice rant earlier by the way. How many people have read it?</span>. Geology rocks 
So anyway, I'll be calling a few people soon, and I'm going to send lostx the MQ ideas, for those of you who know what that is...I've been working on it a bit...eep g2g...btw Alla, saw PoTO 
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. I gather that, years ago, teachers used to graduate as chemistry teachers, maths teachers or whatever, but there is now this idea that they graduate in teaching, and can teach any subject. So, how do you think that's working out?
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