It's 11:20pm on a Friday night (duh...wait now it's 11:21) and I have spent the past three hours writing 1090 words of a 2000 word media and communications major essay.
That is due on Monday.
That I should've started maybe...two weeks ago.
And I started it tonight.
On top of this, I have had a 2000 word film studies research essay to write on how film genre is located in texts, industry and audiences but I won't bore you with that, and a 500 word concert review for my pop culture music class..that too I should've started a few weeks ago, but due to being a forgetful human being I forgot to go to a gig earlier.
So essentially I have learnt two things tonight, or over the course of the past week and a half.
1) Procrastination is the devil. While I don't necessarily blame it on procrastination...well partially yes, I have a tendency to be very faithful to people and I like rocking up to their shindigs and gatherings. They have all of a sudden accumulated and I feel bad leaving the host after making a promise to them, and my friends attending the same do's, that I'll be there. Additionally, there have been family gatherings galore all of a sudden (gotta love being Maltese) and one of these gatherings was an afternoon tea after my Aunty came along and bought us some ravioli. I'm totally not complaining there though. But while I wasn't chilling with my cool relatives and let's face it, they are pretty cool, or spending my whole 14 hours at uni, what in God's name have I been doing? Tumblring, texting, discovering how tired I am, and going through my wardrobe and trying on all my old dresses to see if they still fit me, made a new blog (tadaaaa)...yeah I do have better things to do than fork out 4500 words for three subjects. But damn I am totally suffering right now
2) Never, ever ever ever ever ever ever ever EVER belittle an Arts student. While we may not necessarily be at university all the time like people who do the more "smarter" courses and do much more practical work than we do, when we're at home it's not all fun and games (says the girl that spent a morning crying in her bed listening to The Smiths for three hours. Okay that wasn't fun but yes you see my point right?). We have a MASSIVE pile of books to read, essays to write, information to research, etc etc. We do have work to do and we may not show it, but we go through as much if not more stress than any of the people who do those smarter courses. If any of you, and this is a threat, decide to belittle my arts course, I will personally come find you and make a barricade out of my books and readers and essays outside your house and sing the entire Les Miserables soundtrack all through the night as a sign of protest. (because I have all the free time to do so once my essays are done). Or just don't mess with me in general I am a massive pot of sass.
So yes, don't procrastinate. I have an essay to finish over the weekend.
Stay tuned for more derpy adventures of yours truly. :) x
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