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Deadlines and Procrastination
As you come to know me as a professor, you must come to
accept the fact that I, too, am human and have weaknesses as well as strengths.
I am a card-carrying procrastinator. I know that some of you
share my thrill-seeking behaviors of waiting until the last minute to do things
and share my delusion that we’ll get it done somehow!
My tired and standard old “line” is that “I work best under pressure.” As I have aged and hopefully matured a bit, I know that there is a great fallacy in that cop-out philosophy. I don’t always work better under pressure. This is something that I struggle with and work on constantly. I seem to be a magnet for like-minded procrastinators. (This is NOT a good thing!) I think sometimes I give you way too many opportunities to procrastinate, and we both suffer the consequences. It is simply impossible for me to allow all the students in a class to procrastinate until the last week of the class to turn in huge amounts of work at the last minute. WHY? Because I have to grade it all. Since there is only one of me and often 25-30 of you in each class section, I have to set deadlines and train you (and ME!) to stick to them. This is why I have adopted the practice of using Deadlines and Procrastinator’s Deadlines. Those of you who do everything EARLY (God love you), turn in assignments way before they are due. Those of you who wait until the last minute and barely meet the PD turn this in late. The vast majority of you are somewhere in the middle! Amazingly, this system works and helps me keep on track with grading and finalizing the end-of-semester tasks that are required of me as a professor! |
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©Division of Business,
Economics & Mathematics, WVUP, 2011.
Updated
06/05/2012 .
Division Chair:
Steve.Morgan@mail.wvu.edu ;Business Division Office:
Lauriel.Edwards@mail.wvu.edu
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