This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Vanderbilt chapter.
We all have those moments: you know you have a huge paper coming up but you can’t bring yourself to rationalize starting it until when you just have enough time to get it done. We’ve all been there. We all know exactly what you’re thinking
- It’s okay. I still have x days to get this done, thats only x pages per day. That’s doable. I’ll start tomorrow
- I’m gonna make a detailed outline first, that way writing it will be easier
- My outline is 3 pages. This is gonna be so easy to turn into a paper
- One bulletpoint on the outline was 2 paragraphs. This is doable
- Oh man, I guess that paragraph was actually pretty short. Maybe I could just fill up some space with blabber?
- 1 hour down, and I’ve already written two pages. This is totally doable
- I wonder what’s going on on facebook
- NO. Stop. No facebook. I think I should turn on SelfControl
- Man, (x) pages is actually quite a bit. I should just write down everything I know to take up space
- So I finished part one, what now?
- Maybe I’ll look at some past papers I’ve written to get ideas
- Oh no…. I’m stuck
- Let me just do a bunch of data analysis and then just explain the charts for the next few pages. Yeah. That sounds good
- Why won’t Excel co-operate with me?!
- Okay time to put these into Word
- Should I make them smaller? I feel bad leaving the graphs really big to take up space
- I guess I should figure out what I’m saying about these graphs
- Oh thats a perfect point to make with these graphs
- Oh god… my introduction no longer makes sense
- Okay okay, I’ve edited everything. It should be good now.
- Proofreading SUCKS
- Did I cite everything for sure?
- I’m sure this paper is fine
- Maybe one more look
- No. It’s done. We’re done. Just hit print and HAND IT IN.