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When you’re in college, nobody ever tells you procrastination is a good thing. Everyone has terrible things to say about procrastination. (I could tell you some of them, but I think I’ll get around to that tomorrow.) You’d think putting stuff off was the worst thing in the world. I mean, delaying cheating on an exam until it’s too late almost seems worse than cheating bang on time!
But fellow last-minute workaholics, I have good news for you: your habit of delaying working on stuff has some unique and great advantages. So when you submit that essay first thing Monday morning, and you begin to work on it at 11 pm on Sunday, you can do so with a light heart and a tune on your lips. Here’s why:
1) Procrastination is a great way of looking before you leap.
Just because you’re delaying sitting down to write your essay, doesn’t mean you’re not working on it at all. You keep thinking about it now and then. And so your brain keeps whirring away in the background, figuring out the topic of your paper and what you will write.
That’s why, when you finally get to work, there’s already a fairly neat plan for the whole essay laid out in your mind. You’ve strategized your project instead of hurriedly jumping into it — that’s called looking before you leap, and…
