Procrastination

Procrastination

This has nothing or not much to do with long distance relationships, but it's such a problem for me right now and I need to get my thoughts together to motivate myself.
I have about six weeks to write my BA thesis, which should be about 30 pages. Theoretically I need to hand it in by Jan, 4th, but practically I'm leaving on Dec, 22nd for my boyfriend's and I want to finish before that. I want to enjoy my first real Polish Christmas and our second NYE together, without having to worry about finishing my thesis.
I'm so stupid, though. I had a lot of time to do this. I've known my topic for almost a year and I've handed in my last paper at the end of September. So I had all October to get started.
Well... so far... I have a bibliography, that's not complete and a very rough idea of a general outline. I'm going to another uni's library (about 1h from me) tomorrow, to get two books that they don't have in my uni's library.
And then I really really need to order/write down quotations and make a provisional outline with them. There's going to be three parts, roughly. An explanation of what language attrition is and what changes in the language are expected under ongoing attriton, then examples and an analysis of the Polish language spoken in different regions outside of Poland with a focus on nominal morphology (case!) and then an explanation of how the features relate to the theoretical assumptions of chapter I.
I'm also going to include in the first chapter (obviously) why language attrition is an interesting subject and how it relates to lange acquisition. So yeah. That's how faw I am. I've basically mainly read material for chapter I so far. I have material for the 2nd part, but I haven't read it properly yet.
But I always feel like I still don't know enough about my topic to fill 30 pages. All the papers I've written so far had less then 20 pages, this is the first time I'm writing something that big.
Ugh, but if I never get started, I'll never finish.
I'm not going to bore you anymore. I just needed to write this down somewhere to order my thoughts and get motivation.

I was supposed to go to a Pilates class at my gym tonight, but I'm lazy. I'm going to go there to work out tomorrow, though, before I go to the library.

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Rach321 commented

October 31, 2011, 05:45 PM

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You can do it! Just take it one step at a time. Definitely finish it before you go- you really do have enough time to do it, and a lot of the work is done. The hardest part is choosing a topic and researching.

Write something EVERY day- even if it's a single sentence. One of the hardest parts is actually forcing yourself to sit down and write. So set aside time, even if it's half and hour, and do it!
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Sunnyside193 commented

October 31, 2011, 06:18 PM

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I can totally relate to this. When I applied to Uni's in July one of them required me to complete an application. 4 months later this application is still not done and is due at the end of November. Dam Procrastination! I agree with the above try and do a little each day
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lucybelle commented

October 31, 2011, 09:38 PM

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I didn't really understand most of that, but it sure sounds interesting! You must have a passion for this topic if you chose it, you'll find a way to finish. I guess if we don't see you around here for the next month or two we'll know what happened! Good luck!

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