#procrastinator

[lalubys-the-goat]

Sudden outburst of motivation right now, why 12am? Idk either.

20 days to exams

🎧 Song: Early Morning by Phury

Procrastinated today?: yup, but later onwards got motivation!

(Weird but AnimeMen gave me motivation ;))

feelin depressed lately, saved by a lady

[kalavathiraj]

It’s better to sweat in the lab of work rather than wasting precious minutes in the high castle of procrastination. -starting ‘somewhere’

Life Lessons, QUOTUS

[ccccatttta]

just came home for college and got a 100/100 on my practical pathology exam im so happy imma post more parts

[nerilestudy]

Unleashing Focus: How Pomodoro Transformed My Procrastination Habits

Hey fellow students! 👋 Today, I'm sharing a study game-changer that turned my procrastination habits around : the Pomodoro Technique. As a second-year electrical engineering student, I've faced the challenges of balancing coursework, labs, and exams. The Pomodoro Technique has been my secret weapon, significantly improving my focus, productivity, and overall academic performance.

Overcoming Procrastination

I used to be a notorious procrastinator. The daunting size of tasks overwhelmed me, leading to delayed assignments and last-minute cramming. Enter Pomodoro, and everything changed.

Pomodoro in Action

Here's how I apply the Pomodoro Technique to overcome procrastination and boost my grades:

Clear Goals: Before each study session, I set specific tasks or topics to cover during the Pomodoro intervals.

Timed Focus: Using a simple timer app, I dive into focused 25-minute (up to 50 minutes) study sessions, eliminating distractions and boosting productivity.

Short Breaks: After each Pomodoro, I take a 5 or 10-minute break to refresh my mind, stretch, or grab a quick snack.

Longer Breaks: Every four Pomodoros, I reward myself with a 15-30 minute break to fully recharge.

Results Speak Louder

Since adopting the Pomodoro Technique, my grades have seen a remarkable improvement. The structured approach transformed me from a procrastinator into a focused and efficient learner.

If you're battling procrastination and seeking a study routine that works, give the Pomodoro Technique a shot. It's not about the quantity of study hours but the quality of focused learning.

To keep myself motivated and help other students, I recorded my study sessions using this technique and made them available online. You can check my channel if you’d like to give it a try.

Try it out, and let me know how Pomodoro works for you! Happy studying! 📚💡

[study-core-101]

guys, i just did the unthinkable

i did the work more than 24 hours before the deadline

[simonaslangblabblr]

Why does studying feel like a chore sometimes?

Hi everyone, today I want to talk about the fact that sometimes studying really feels tedious, even if it's something you enjoy and even if it's not bound to deadlines imposed by school or university.

I personally experienced this during the first lockdowns in the pandemic. I had a lot of free time because I was home, but I could not start studying Korean to save my life, I was literally forgetting about it. Indeed, I ended up putting it off until I completed my Master's degree in 2024.

I was not taking it lightheartedly: it was supposed to be something I enjoyed, yet why was I procrastinating it so hard that I was forgetting its entire existence?

🤔The possible answers to my case

Now, I'm not good at self-acceptance, but I tried thinking about all the possibilities without beating myself up, but also while maintaining some objectivity:

We were all home, but it was not a normal time. It was a time where nobody would have known how the future would have been and this could have definitely stressed out our brains.

I was still in university, which meant that I had different priorities at the time. Sum it up with the aforementioned stress, and it becomes much easier to put self-studying at the very last place of your mental list.

I had chosen a language that, for a native Italian speaker, was objectively difficult, because of how different it is (the two languages are not even in the same language macrogroup). Korean grammar also seems to appear very intricate for most language learners across the Internet, from what I've seen.

My attention span got objectively worse: in order to check the news, I was constantly scrolling either on Google or on social media, which made it harder for me to focus. My grades at university did not resent from it, but it made me harder to pick anything study-related outside of my uni workload.

The whole situation, as a result, has made me exhausted and quite detached from my interests and parts of my "identity" pre-pandemic, and I'm still trying to reconnect the pieces nowadays.

🌈 Is it over now?

I'm not sure that the situation is completely solved right now - I definitely do not forget about Korean anymore. However, I have also accepted that life happens and we do not have the same level of motivation every day, and that's okay.

I also implemented some strategies to ease the problem:

I committed to reducing harmful screentime and doomscrolling in order to fix my attention span;

I planned my exercises for every language in advance, so I do not have to stress over what has to be done;

I waited until the end of my university studies before picking up Korean again: sometimes, we're just too busy for the mental load that a certain hobby requires, so the best solution might also be to wait it out until you have more mental space.

I hope this post was useful in case someone had been feeling the same way recently. You got this!

If you have been through the same problem and solved it, how did you do it? Do you have any recommendation?

[totheoneswhostayupallnight]

Biggest procrastinator award officially goes to me 🏅🙂‍↕️

[izenzzarn]

I'll do it tomorrow T-Shirt

[myhyperfixationisbooks]

all a girl needs to be unstoppable is somebody to scream at them to write the book they’ve been procrastinating about writing for months

[onceuponaweirdo]

There is never a dull moment in the mind of an overthinking overachiever perfectionist procrastinator

[temnashafa]

В перерві між завданнями🔥In between tasks

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[pony]-hey, hEey, you gotta do something(⁠~⁠_⁠~⁠;⁠)[19 tasks][tired][notes]

[lilgayducky]

Currently procrastinating homework from Environmental Science... Anyone love compost? This shit's hard...

[0nelinerwordplay]

[eisodiary]

you could have been brilliant, but you are a procrastinator.

[neuro-nest]

The face of executive dysfunction.

…I’m supposed to be finishing a university assignment.

I’m the ferret. Life is the big scary Minion behind me.