BION, Spritle used to be a teacher. Spritle found out through coughExtensivecough research that students who work their butts off for that 85% in class tend to do better in college than those who skate for the 92%. These students know what it means to apply and work. Spritle, unfortunately (?) was one of the other kids. Smarter than my sister, I got worse grades. Now look at me! A pathetic example of a Statistics Geek (Nerdicus Poindexterus) who “earns” a living scanning these boards (boreds?). Sure my college buddies dropped out their Junior years to become some IPO rich bastard, but I gloat in knowing that they are filing for bankruptcy faster than you can say “dot com”. AND THEY DON’T HAVE COLLEGE DEGREES!!! Ha-Ha.
We will unite! We’ll have the first meeting at Case De Spritle. I’ll let you know when is convenient…
I ALWAYS do my best work the night before. In high school, I tried a few times to pace my research, but on the ones that I did that with, I lost my focus and ended up getting a worse grade. If I waited until the last possible minute, I invariably got an A.
I ended up graduating from high school with a 3.5 GPA, but decided that college wasn’t my bag and have educated myself. Some call me a slacker, but I like to think that this slacker is one who takes up the slack. Or, maybe like Zoggie, I am just a chronic procrastinator.
Why put off till tomorrow what you can do next week?
In school, I was smart enough to get by without exerting much effort. I could have been on the honor roll, in the advanced classes, etc, if I applied myself. I didnt feel like it, so I graduated with a 1.2 GPA.
I lived with mom, working every once in a while, and taking classes part time at Aurora Community (AA in History), then at a culinary institute (AAS in Culinary Arts), never paying for tuition myself.
At 28, I moved in with a man who started his own internet-application company. This caught the eye of a company based in Las Vegas, and theyre willing to pay for our move there, and give him a home loan and $140k per annum, plus bonuses. He says well get married in Vegas, with Elvis officiating.
Ive never supported myself, never paid rent, mom made most payments on my car, I have few marketable skills and I hate using apostrophes.
But I have fun.
::eyes the two never-been-opened books that need to be compared in a 10 page essay that’s due on Thursday::
So…what I’m trying to say is, if anyone knows anything about the experiences of Woodward and Bernstein at the Washington Post as compared to those of Jill Nelson, please feel more than free to email, write, send a carrier pidgeon, call me at home, or tie your thoughts to a rock and throw them through my window.
Hey I might be changing my ways! I have a homework assignment in History and its super large and since I have a light load today, I plan on doing some tonight. Go me…
Woohoo! A thread with my name written all over it!
Oddly enough, I’m quite the workaholic now, and was dubbed slackergirl by the boss at my last job for leaving at 10:30 on a Friday night after working a 70 hour week.
This sort of behavior is fairly new to me though. I slacked off so much in high school that the guidance counselor called me when I was a junior to tell me that there was no way I would graduate on time. So I did the ultimate slacker thing, I stopped going to school entirely. A couple of crappy jobs finally fixed my head and I went back and got my H.S. equivelancy and a degree from a good university. I even taught junior high school for a year. It was fun to spend a little time on the other side of the desk.
My advice, don’t slack quite as much as I did, but enjoy wasting the time you’ve got. I had to work 50 hours a week to get through college, and I think that’s my only regret. I should have spread the free time around a little better from 16 to 24.
I’m still in school [just barely] because of my terrible, TERRIBLE slackness. My organisation skills are fucked, I never do any homework, I’m often caught wagging school and sometimes [all the time] I just don’t give a toss. Thankfully, in the last month, I’ve pulled my socks up and applied myself better and managed to pass my exams [I hope]. I have many dreams, I just lack the motivation to achieve them.
Well shit. My boss and I are writing a chapter for a book and have to present it in Washington DC on December 6th. He’s done his part. We had to send the entire chapter to the publisher Nov. 21! I guess I’d better get started. Does anybody know what topic I’m supposed to write this damn chapter about??
I would like to share with all my fellow slackers the only real quotable quote of Shirley said to her guidance councilor during one of her many " You know you can do better than this…you are smarter than the grades you are getting" speeches during the Debacle better known as High School.
I just looked at the man and said, " Why should I bust my ass to get an “A”, when I’m sitting back and doing nothing and still passing. It’s not like I’m going to need any of this information in the future."
God, I hope my kids never see that.
I used to be a good student – I got straight A’s my entire senior year of high school and graduated from college with honors. I always did well on everything.
Then I went to law school and I became a slacker.
Today was my last day of class before finals. I have a test on Tuesday, a test on Thursday and a test the following week, and I’m nowhere near prepared for any of them. I just can’t get myself to study, even though the tests count for 100 percent of my grade.
On top of that, right now I’m supposed to be finishing my final project for my fourth class (I’m designing a website). It sounded like a good idea at the end of September. Now that I have only 11 days to finish writing out the info and coding the damn thing, I’m sorry I suggested it. Luckily that one only counts for 60 percent of my grade.
I think that I’m having trouble getting started because 1) I hate school, 2) the class is graded on a 2.7 curve so almost everyone gets a C or a C+ anyway, and 3) I tend to learn more when I cram two days before the exam. Don’t ask me why my brain works that way.
Anyway, break’s over. I have to go back to writing and coding now. ::grumbles::
I’m too much of a slacker to even post here regularly. I forgot my password at it took me about six months to press the little button to have it sent to me. I’m going to sleep now.
Suprisingly, I finished my history paper before going onilne to post. Generally, if I’m doing work on the computer, that’s synonomous with intermittedly playing Minesweeper. I guess I’m more of a logical slacker, with a bit of procrastination thrown into the mix. I can sometimes get right down, and focus, just knowing the satisfation I’ll get out of finishing it. But if the work is gonna be boring, and I know it, I’ll put it off. In school, I’m somewhat of a slacker. I trust my natural intellect over my note taking skills, and I remember all the right things. I guess I do as much work (or lack therof) as makes me happy. Same deal with grades. I get good grades, and I don’t try that hard. I try to enjoy myself. That helps.
I think I’m failing most of my classes. My four reports are all at least a week overdue. I’ve finished 2 1/2. Now I only have the rest of the Truman/Pendergast report to do, and the Korean War report to do. FUCK!
I’ve been unemployed for three months now. I don’t know where I want to work. I don’t want to work. ::sigh:: I need medication.
I’m just like Zoggie…I wait until the last minute to do things and still manage to get excellent grades. People think I spend hours doing homework when really I rush to do it during Homeroom and study hall.
In my college writing class, there are 7 of us. 4 people failed, one got a C-, and the other person got a C.
I got an A.
All seven of us are slackers.
Lesson?
When you’re a slacker/procrastinator, you need to learn to do it right, I guess.
I feel like I’ve finally found a home. Hello Slacker family! You’re my kind of people.
I’m a senior in high school right now, and my slacking has been getting exponentially worse lately with this whole “senior slide” kicking in. I’ve over-involved myself in so many different things, from all honors classes to random extracurriculars that I effectively get absolutely nothing done. I have more to do than I can imagine, but all I ever actualy do is sit on the internet or blow off studying by going over to a friends house.
I’ve always managed to get stuff done when there was an absolute deadline involved, but it often involved pulling all nighters writing a research paper or finishing a book. However, this year my math teacher doesn’t require us to have homework done by certain dates, we just need to have it turned in by the end of the semester to count for our grade. This means that I haven’t done an assignment since September. Everyone else does them on a nightly basis, but I still have been managing to pull A’s on tests without having looked at the material prior to them. I’m not looking forward, however, to January, when I’m going to have about 4 months of homework due. Even know, it feels like a weight upon my back, and I can never be quite at ease because I know I should be doing it, but I just can’t work up the motivation. I’m screwed.
Or, maybe like Zoggie, I am just a chronic procrastinator.