Blog #9- Meltdowns and Procrastination

Blog # 9- Meltdowns and Procrastination
Right about now, we have about a hundred papers due, and students running around the center like chickens with their heads chopped off, trying to get their papers done and register for classes in time. It is a great time, especially when your time restrictions don’t really coincide with someone else. People are trying to do more than their bodies can physically handle, and it is about time for them to take a step back. We all need to realize that going into things having a meltdown is not going to get anything done that much sooner. If you begin to have a meltdown it is really important to remember to breathe. When people have meltdowns in college it is usually related to having an overload in homework assignments that are due. If you feel like you are going to have a meltdown, it is important to step back and breathe. Take it one step at a time, tackling once class at a time. If you allow yourself to experience a meltdown, then nothing is going to get done, and you are going to find yourself further behind then to begin with. Procrastination can be one of the leading causes to college student’s meltdowns. Waiting until the last minute to finish assignments is never going to benefit you in anyway. When you procrastinate, you are probably procrastinating on more than one class at a time. Try not to procrastinate, I was the world’s biggest procrastinator, and at times I still find myself procrastinating. I do not find myself procrastinating all the time, more or less around the Holidays, only because I would love to spend the time with my family, and not with my face buried in the text books. Now that I have developed a system where I learn to do all my work before the Holiday breaks so I don’t have to worry about doing things at the last minute, nor do I have to worry about not being able to spend time with my family during breaks. I don’t worry about meltdowns anymore, and I find time to spend with friends as well. Like I said before, one of the biggest things to remember while have a meltdown is that you need to breathe, stay calm, don’t over react, and focus. It is not the end of the world, it will get done, and you should stop thinking about the larger part of the problem, and take in smaller doses. Go down through all the classes, and write down all the assignments that are due this week, and even maybe things you need to do for a project due next week. Once this is done, start doing work for the first class that you will have something due. Focus only on that class until it is finally all done. I have found that having an agenda has worked in more ways to benefit myself. I see others so much as writing all their classes down on one paper and what they have due in that class because they don’t have an agenda. My favorite is a friend of mine; she takes a little piece of scrap paper out of the daily notes to professor’s pile, and on the back as she is going through everything scribbles them on there. I myself would never be able to do this, but, hey it works for her and whatever works for you enough to get your work done, then I would definitely get on it.