 Comedy: July 19, 2006 Issue [#1155] |
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This week: Edited by: Melissa is fashionably late!  
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Life throws us curve balls, running us through a gambit of emotions. The best emotion of all is happines, and nothing envokes happiness more than laughter. There is a science to making others laugh, and it is through that science that comedy has evolved.
This topic of this week's Comedy Newsletter is procrastination. |
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I'm a procrastinator at heart. In fact, I generally wait until the last minute for everything. I even submitted this newsletter on the last day it was due. Not because I didn't know what I was going to write about, although I did struggle this time around. Or even because I didn't have the time to dedicate to sitting down and typing out what I had to say. No, I had plenty of free hours in my weekend to write about procrastination.
When I was in middle school, I found that I would get B's and C's on papers that I spent days, weeks, and sometimes even months preparing. When I would run short on time or have so much homework that some of my assignments would be completed while sitting at my desk waiting for the tardy bell to ring. And sometimes, I would find myself sitting up until 2 or 3 am the night before a book report was due. In those cases, I would almost always score an A.
This trend continued through high school. I waited until the night before my literary analysis and research paper on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was due, in my senior year, before I actually sat down and wrote a final draft. Sure, I had written a first and second draft, but I ended up scrapping a good portion of it in favor for my final draft. When the grade came back, I received an A-.
In college, I deviated from procrastinating only once, on a research paper for my abnormal psychology class. (I still to this day question why abnormal psychology was required for a computer information systems degree.) I had to write a report on some psychological disorder or another, perhaps obsessive compulsive disorder. Well, wanting to impress the professor as much as possible, I spent weeks writing this paper. It included daily trips to the library for research and many drafts. The final result? I received a B-. Thankfully, the paper only consisted of about 10% of our grade and through tests and other papers, that I procrastinated to write, I managed to pull and A in the class.
The next semester, I took microbiology, which meant another research paper. I have since brain-dumped the topic, since microbiology for a computer information systems major is like an interior decorator taking an advanced operating systems course - useless information. Anyway, I dabbled in research throughout the course, but didn't actually apply it to my own written form until the morning that the paper was due. The result? I received an A+, although I did struggle through the rest of the class.
So, yes, I credit procrastination to a big amount of the success in my life. I'm even waiting until the last minute to finish packing for the convention. I leave Tuesday (tomorrow), and although I have everything picked out that I want and need to take, I still haven't put it all in a suitcase in a cohesive manner. Right now, it's all just thrown in for the sake of keeping it separate from my other stuff so I don't use it between now and then.
What happens when you procrastinate? Has it ever paid off? Share your procrastination stories with me!
Until next time, at the very last moment possible... I bid you adeiu! (Unless I'll be seeing you this week at the convention, that is.  )
Melissa is fashionably late! |
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