Master Procrastinator

Lots of people say it's bad to procrastinate things...it's probably true, but I wouldn't really know. I am really good at putting things off until the last possible minute.

I had this group presentation in my biology class that we've had all semester to work on. I think I met with my group a total of two times before the day it was due. Both meetings ended up with us each picking an aspect of our topic (genetically modified crops), and then deciding that we had plenty of time to get things done before it was due...it was due on Monday.

Well, Thanksgiving break rolled around, and nobody had really collaborated with anyone else on their research or how we were going to present the stuff. I had volunteered to make a PowerPoint presentation. Everybody in the group went home for the holiday, and on Saturday evening I decided it was time to try calling people to ask them to send me their information. I didn't get most of the information until Sunday afternoon. Then I found out that one of our group members got in a car wreck on the way home, and wouldn't be there for the presentation (she wasn't hurt, just stranded). So she couldn't send her research until Monday.

So we decided to meet in the library at 8:00 AM on Monday; three hours before the presentation. We got all of our information together, made a fantastic PowerPoint presentation, practiced it once or twice, and headed off for class. Everyone did a great job of presenting, and it went really smoothly. Nobody in the class asked a question we couldn't answer, and the professor seemed to enjoy the presentation.

So I've decided that sometimes I'm really really good at putting things off until the last minute (and apparently good at influencing others to do the same). I should probably do something about that...