To other procrastinators and lazy students Forum

[lazystudent]

I'm lazy and I procrastinate unless someone makes me do my work. I've been doing well this past month, but I'm starting to watch tv more now and sometimes get a day behind in readings, when I know I should always be ahead in them. I want to do well and I know if I work hard and efficiently I should be able to. Are there any other procrastinators out there who would be interested in pushing each other to do their readings and outlines so that we have a shot at getting near the top of the class, rather than always being on the cusp of falling behind and never being able to catch up?

[Sandro]

I havent done any work at all this weekend. Sunday 4pm. wooo

[omninode]

I'm lazy and I procrastinate unless someone makes me do my work. I've been doing well this past month, but I'm starting to watch tv more now and sometimes get a day behind in readings, when I know I should always be ahead in them. I want to do well and I know if I work hard and efficiently I should be able to. Are there any other procrastinators out there who would be interested in pushing each other to do their readings and outlines so that we have a shot at getting near the top of the class, rather than always being on the cusp of falling behind and never being able to catch up?

No. Everyone else wants you to fail so they can get ahead.


It's true.

[lazystudent]

I'm lazy and I procrastinate unless someone makes me do my work. I've been doing well this past month, but I'm starting to watch tv more now and sometimes get a day behind in readings, when I know I should always be ahead in them. I want to do well and I know if I work hard and efficiently I should be able to. Are there any other procrastinators out there who would be interested in pushing each other to do their readings and outlines so that we have a shot at getting near the top of the class, rather than always being on the cusp of falling behind and never being able to catch up?

No. Everyone else wants you to fail so they can get ahead.


It's true.

Right, that's why it'd be harder to make it work with classmates - if one benefits the other loses.

However with someone who's not in your class or at your school, there is instead mutual benefit, to the detriment only of unknown parties.

[Geist13]

I'm a pretty serious procrastinator and here's what I do. I do all of my reading for the week on Saturday and Sunday. Sometimes this takes no more than 10 hours. Sometimes its takes over 15. Often, it's rough to get through. However, I do it because I know it means that I don't have to do jack shit during the week. I go to class, go home for lunch and TV, go back to class, go to the gym, then just dick around or drink all night. It makes for a great week. 4 weeks before exams I start outlining. Doing all my reading over the weekend facilitates outlining because it frees up the week for this work. This work schedule got me a 3.9 second semester last year after getting below median trying to work my ass off during first semester.

[mrloblaw]

I skim the readings for class and read the entire casebook for all my classes in the two weeks or so going into finals.

Horrible two weeks, but great semester otherwise.

[PinkCow]

I'm a pretty serious procrastinator and here's what I do. I do all of my reading for the week on Saturday and Sunday. Sometimes this takes no more than 10 hours. Sometimes its takes over 15. Often, it's rough to get through. However, I do it because I know it means that I don't have to do jack shit during the week. I go to class, go home for lunch and TV, go back to class, go to the gym, then just dick around or drink all night. It makes for a great week. 4 weeks before exams I start outlining. Doing all my reading over the weekend facilitates outlining because it frees up the week for this work. This work schedule got me a 3.9 second semester last year after getting below median trying to work my ass off during first semester.

I've done the exact same thing since the start of this semester. Except for this memo that's due that I've put off like a mother, the semester so far has been ***easy*** (and by easy I mean, I'm not staying up until 3 in the morning and hating life like some of my classmates).
Makes for a boring weekend, but a chill week overall.

Glad to know it actually worked for someone.

[spleenworship]

I'm a pretty serious procrastinator and here's what I do. I do all of my reading for the week on Saturday and Sunday. Sometimes this takes no more than 10 hours. Sometimes its takes over 15. Often, it's rough to get through. However, I do it because I know it means that I don't have to do jack shit during the week. I go to class, go home for lunch and TV, go back to class, go to the gym, then just dick around or drink all night. It makes for a great week. 4 weeks before exams I start outlining. Doing all my reading over the weekend facilitates outlining because it frees up the week for this work. This work schedule got me a 3.9 second semester last year after getting below median trying to work my ass off during first semester.

I'm doing it slightly differently:

Work all day Sunday, spend 2-3 hours a night on M-Th, then take Friday night and all day Saturday off. Sometimes I get bored because all my work is done for the week by Wednesday and work a little on my outlines. The only thing throwing me off is the occasional late 8 hour night for the damn memos.

[Geist13]

I'm a pretty serious procrastinator and here's what I do. I do all of my reading for the week on Saturday and Sunday. Sometimes this takes no more than 10 hours. Sometimes its takes over 15. Often, it's rough to get through. However, I do it because I know it means that I don't have to do jack shit during the week. I go to class, go home for lunch and TV, go back to class, go to the gym, then just dick around or drink all night. It makes for a great week. 4 weeks before exams I start outlining. Doing all my reading over the weekend facilitates outlining because it frees up the week for this work. This work schedule got me a 3.9 second semester last year after getting below median trying to work my ass off during first semester.

I'm doing it slightly differently:

Work all day Sunday, spend 2-3 hours a night on M-Th, then take Friday night and all day Saturday off. Sometimes I get bored because all my work is done for the week by Wednesday and work a little on my outlines. The only thing throwing me off is the occasional late 8 hour night for the damn memos.

Yeah legal writing assignments (and this year, law review bullshit) can throw everything off. But I've found that getting the reading done over the weekend gives me the freedom to just stay up all night one night during the week to pump that stuff out. When you have to worry about reading for class the next day, writing assignments become an even bigger pain.

[lazystudent]

I'm a pretty serious procrastinator and here's what I do. I do all of my reading for the week on Saturday and Sunday. Sometimes this takes no more than 10 hours. Sometimes its takes over 15. Often, it's rough to get through. However, I do it because I know it means that I don't have to do jack shit during the week. I go to class, go home for lunch and TV, go back to class, go to the gym, then just dick around or drink all night. It makes for a great week. 4 weeks before exams I start outlining. Doing all my reading over the weekend facilitates outlining because it frees up the week for this work. This work schedule got me a 3.9 second semester last year after getting below median trying to work my ass off during first semester.

That's pretty much what I've been doing - except I'm trying to do the outlines while I read, and then modify them during/after class sometimes. There's no way I can work most weekdays, I'm just too tired from classes to do anything efficiently. The trick is to keep myself motivated through the weekends to actually do the readings.

[tlstlstls73]

I'm with you. Did my first reading today in a month. Read 1 page. I'm not on LR or MC so I really have nothing but free time and figure I can catch up over the next few weeks. 2L--job lined up, was hired at median, what's the point?

[lazystudent]

I'm with you. Did my first reading today in a month. Read 1 page. I'm not on LR or MC so I really have nothing but free time and figure I can catch up over the next few weeks. 2L--job lined up, was hired at median, what's the point?

Yeah... problem is I'm in 1L.

[tlstlstls73]

I'm with you. Did my first reading today in a month. Read 1 page. I'm not on LR or MC so I really have nothing but free time and figure I can catch up over the next few weeks. 2L--job lined up, was hired at median, what's the point?

Yeah... problem is I'm in 1L.

Fair enough...How do you think I got to median in the first place. Haven't figured out a shortcut to doing well, unfortunately. But you can get by.

[downing]

I'm convinced that all my peers are studying 24/7. This might not be true, but it's a conviction I haven't been able to rid myself of. I spoke to one or two other people who feel similarly, but I suppose there must be at least a handful of fun loving studying hating students in my class.

[PinkCow]

I'm convinced that all my peers are studying 24/7. This might not be true, but it's a conviction I haven't been able to rid myself of. I spoke to one or two other people who feel similarly, but I suppose there must be at least a handful of fun loving studying hating students in my class.

AKA the bottom half?

I kid I kid

[bartleby]

LRW is truly the only class that is pwning me time-wise. We have an ungraded 4 page assignment due every week. It is literally taking me 3-4 hours to do - even though it is only 4 pages, it's off of 40 pages of closed research. This is bullshit.

[BaiAilian2013]

I keep all my books at school and don't have my computer out while I'm reading. That way, while I'm at school there's basically nothing I can do but just do the damn work, and leaving without having done the work is an affirmative admission that I'm not going to do it, rather than the slow slide of self-deception that makes up a lot of procrastinatory time. I'm a lot less likely to march out of school saying "yep, not doing my reading" than I am to fuck around on the computer for three hours with my casebook next to me and end up not having done the reading.

[tlstlstls73]

Yea -- computer off while reading is a killer move. It works although is very tough to pull off.

[DreamsInDigital]

Right there with you OP. I fucked around in college and developed a MAJOR procrastination habit. I started this year off pretty well, reading everything 2 or 3 days before class and briefing every case.

The past 2 weeks I've been reading (and sometimes just skimming) right before class. Thankfully I have long enough breaks that this is doable for me, but I don't have time to brief cases or make sure I understand every last thing in the casebook. I've done and felt fine during class discussions, but I know that not doing in depth reading and briefing is going to bite me in the ass come exam time.

I am going to try and get back into some of the habits that people have been mentioning on here
- when I sit down to read, ACTUALLY read. No facebook, no TLS, no gchatting.
- get all my work done at school (so just treat it more like a job).
- not do any work on friday after my last class or Saturday, that way I won't feel too bad about doing a little work on Sunday.

So far my research and reading classes haven't taken up too much time (thankfully they're pass/fail), but one they get more difficult and time consuming my current strategy is definitely not going to cut it.

[spleenworship]

LRW is truly the only class that is pwning me time-wise. We have an ungraded 4 page assignment due every week. It is literally taking me 3-4 hours to do - even though it is only 4 pages, it's off of 40 pages of closed research. This is bullshit.

That is bullshit.

[MrPapagiorgio]

LRW is truly the only class that is pwning me time-wise. We have an ungraded 4 page assignment due every week. It is literally taking me 3-4 hours to do - even though it is only 4 pages, it's off of 40 pages of closed research. This is bullshit.

That is bullshit.

[lazystudent]

Right there with you OP. I fucked around in college and developed a MAJOR procrastination habit. I started this year off pretty well, reading everything 2 or 3 days before class and briefing every case.

The past 2 weeks I've been reading (and sometimes just skimming) right before class. Thankfully I have long enough breaks that this is doable for me, but I don't have time to brief cases or make sure I understand every last thing in the casebook. I've done and felt fine during class discussions, but I know that not doing in depth reading and briefing is going to bite me in the ass come exam time.

I am going to try and get back into some of the habits that people have been mentioning on here
- when I sit down to read, ACTUALLY read. No facebook, no TLS, no gchatting.
- get all my work done at school (so just treat it more like a job).
- not do any work on friday after my last class or Saturday, that way I won't feel too bad about doing a little work on Sunday.

So far my research and reading classes haven't taken up too much time (thankfully they're pass/fail), but one they get more difficult and time consuming my current strategy is definitely not going to cut it.

Yeah, in college procrastination worked just fine. I understood everything quick enough (plus it was all just math, which is naturally organized, as opposed to law courses/cases, which are a PITA to organize into outlines/briefs). But in law school if I just skim everything, I can't expect to come in the top half of the class, nevermind top 10%. I have to keep my computer on and brief and organize everything or I won't learn it right.

This weekend I set a timer that alternated between studying and taking breaks in set blocks. It worked pretty well, though I'm not sure how long the cool sounds effects on the timer will serve to keep me motivated.

[Ernert]

I keep all my books at school and don't have my computer out while I'm reading. That way, while I'm at school there's basically nothing I can do but just do the damn work, and leaving without having done the work is an affirmative admission that I'm not going to do it, rather than the slow slide of self-deception that makes up a lot of procrastinatory time. I'm a lot less likely to march out of school saying "yep, not doing my reading" than I am to fuck around on the computer for three hours with my casebook next to me and end up not having done the reading.

Quoted because I will have to convince myself to do this come next fall... super duper major procrastinator through college and trying to hype myself up to not treat LS (esp 1L) the same way.

[thedive]

Why not just can some briefs online? I do all the readings but sometimes just get some briefs online. Then I add/delete a few things and boom. This saves some time but I still try to do a "mental brief" while reading, so if my predicted issue/rule is way different I know I may have a problem. Then just go to class and add anything you think your prof thinks is important.