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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Is my procrastination a "bad" thing if I can still pull above average grades?
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A couple semesters ago I was in the same position of waiting till the last possible minute (quite literally a lot of times with all nighters) yet still getting great grades. In fact, dispite procrastinating just as much if not more than previous semesters and having a job in college for the first time, i managed the best GPA of my college career. It felt like I was on top of the world.
The problem is, it also made me over-confident that I could continue to get away with it. The next semester things started to fall off pretty dramatically in terms of having to turn in multiple big assignments late and other procrastination-related problems. I honestly wanted to get everything done on time but it inexplicably (in my mind) just never happened. Then finally this semester the shit hit the fan and full-fledged burnout hit and I've managed to back myself into a hell of a hole here.
The point is, I know I was no different a person this semester than the semester I had good grades, yet the way I worked left me a very, very small margin of error. The danger is if the needle barely shifts to the other side of not getting good grades, you can find yourself in a tough place in a hurry with no clue how you got there.
Or maybe not, but that's at least how it happened with me.