Monday, 9 May 2011

Procrastination and Examination

I'm about to sit 9 exams, spread from the 18th of this month to the 23rd of June. Despite that, I still haven't written a blog post, or completed any of the practice papers due in under 8 hours. I've managed to get a load of little tasks done, but nothing significant or important. Ze Frank had an excellent video on procrastination, but I'm sure I've already linked far too many people to it. 


"Psychologists often cite such behavior as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision" [wikipedia]


Interestingly, the above quote fails to mention the anxiety brought on by not completing the tasks required of you, hence discrediting the whole statement and making procrastination entirely acceptable and healthy from a psychological perspective. As if that stopped any of us anyway...


Just one of many ways in which you, too, can successfully procrastinate...


Side note - I'm interested to hear from anyone who's been affected by the PlayStation Network being down over the last couple of weeks. What does it actually stop people from doing? I know if it stopped me playing Portal 2 co-op I'd be pretty annoyed...

Now to bury myself in exam papers. Fun times.
Charlie

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