All Nighters

This one is for the all the university students now that it is deadline season!

Tomorrow is deadline day for two of my assignments the other is on Friday. I have already submitted one but I have been putting off this essay for about a month now, I have about 24 hours to write a thousand words that make sense, so I have taken to do an all nighter till it is complete then i can sleep and proof read tomorrow and finish off the assignment due on Friday.

So i though i would blog my experience of an all nighter (although it isn't my first)

The time is 23:23 (24 hours and 7 minutes till deadline)

I am pumped full of energy drink (relentless - my fav) and listening to a playlist of music (currently playing the way you look tonight - mouse rat from Parks and Recreation) I have done 754/2000 words and am feeling quite good about getting this done by a reasonable hour - this could all change quite quickly.

The time is now 00:35 (22 hours and 55 minutes till deadline) 

I have opened a box of chocolates to snack on!

Word Count - 1043/2000
At my university and I am sure many others you are allowed 10% either side of your word limit so really I have about 1043/1800 words which is a much nicer number to look at. As that means I only have 757 words left instead of 957 words :L I am still listening to music and it still from Mouse Rat on Parks and Recreation (if you have never seen Parks and Rec you really should it is bloody brilliant. I am also not feeling too tired, thank you energy drink!!!

The time is now 2:30 (21 hours until deadline)

I am losing the will to live

Word Count: 1233/2000

                      1233/1800

It has got to the stage in an all nigher when I start to flag in the last two hours I have written 200 words :(. I got distracted by taking the life in Britain tests to see if I would be able to pass, safe to say I passed with flying colours (good thing to as I was born here!). I have also stopped listening to music as my headphones were starting to hurt! Maybe that's why I haven't been as productive. However I am still not that tired :).

The time is now 4:30 (19 hours until deadline)

It is done!

Word Count: 1819/2000

So I would ideally like to be higher into the world count but my aim for tonight was to hit 1800 and then go to sleep so I can rest up and then tomorrow it is then time to proof read and finally submit! Then its time to start my final assignment for Friday. In terms of tiredness I can truly say I feel ready for bed, thank you energy drink for keeping me awake. Coffee it is your turn in the morning :)

So if you have been reading for this long then thank you and I hope it made sense as I don't feel like proof reading this as well. 

Have you ever pulled an all nighter?

 Edit: The time is now 2pm and I have submitted the essay YAYAY!!

The final word count was 1988

Procrastination update:

So last night after moaning on about how terrible I am about getting down and working, guess what I didn't do much work!

I need something that will kick me up the butt and get me to do work!

Maybe I need to write a list every morning of what I need to do that day and I can tick it off as I go.

So here goes:

1. Plan and research for my Practitioners in Practise essay 
2. Re-dye my hair 
3. Finish Placement evaluation 
4. Go to 7-9 rehearsal 

And if I don't cross them off it will be here on the World Wide Web for all to see. Hopefully this will be enough motivation TO GET WORK DONE!

Edit: 3 out 4 isn't too bad is it! It took me much longer to do the research for the first essay and all I wanted to do after my rehearsal was just to relax with my housemates and watch a bit of telly! I think I might carry on with this tomorrow but we will see if that happens.

Procrastination

I think the whole world at one point of another must suffer from a case of Procrastination but I swear I suffer with it more than most. At this exact moment I have one performance to do work for one adventure story book to finish a presentation to make and three essays to do! but here I am sitting watching Jane the Virgin and writing this blog post.

It's not as if I don't care about what grade I get. I really want and need to do well, but I physically can't get started. I have the work next to me ready to work on but instead i am writing my second blog post in about an hour!

I keep telling myself that it will be fine and that is my problem. I have everything planned out in my head thinking it will be fine so I don't worry and if I don't worry I don't work which means it gets to a couple days before the deadline and I panic.

This blog post has surprisingly helped me with motivation and I am not about to get cracking on some work.