Time Management

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I often find I at times have severe time management issues. I often get distracted. With large assignments that we are assigned, I don't really feel like doing too much work until I realise its due soon and the pressure is on. I always do about average in my courses...but I know I have alot of talent and that if I would spend more time on my projects I'd really shine.

Anyone else have time managment issues? any of you have any strategies to deal with them?

(on a related note: I am doing best in my general education class: Intro to Psychology. I got a 2 week reading assignment, did the research and the paper the night before, and got an 88. Mind you I was up late and tired as hell...)

I've always had some pretty bad time management issues. (Probably ADHD-related.) The solution for me - rigid self-discipline, or better yet having someone else to keep me on track/make sure I'm focusing on the right priorities.

I have difficulty with time management as well. I procrastinate a lot.

For example, in school, I had a research paper on Jerry Lewis due, and science work. I waited until the last minute on Jerry Lewis because I had no clue how to do a paper in APA format. I got a 92 on the paper, though.

I guess that feeling is natural knowing some of us.

I always leave essays to the last minutes. Sometimes my inabillty to organise things for college has a effect on my grade.
I've just been told that I have original and creative thoughs just not much structure behind them.
My english teacher at school said the same.

I have a big Chem test tomorrow night, and while I really should have studied this last weekend, instead I played Quake 4, doh! Now the pressure is on!
My trick is to think positive, what is the worst that can happen?

I fail the test consequently I fail the class, the school decides they don't like my type so I skip academic probation and go strait to expulsion, in a depressed rage I burn all my worldly possessions leaving me homeless and broke, from there I start wandering the streets with only a crack pipe and a bottle of Jim Bean for a friend, right before I die an excruciating death from liver failure I am gang raped by a large group of escaped convicts.

So no pressure really.

I used to always do large projects on the second to last night before they're due. Though I recall one time in elementary school where I did my entire sixth grade project on Guam in one night.

Nowadays, I'll start on the second to last night, go to bed, and try to finish them the night before they're due, unless, of course I get them done in study hall.

I always get above average grades though, although math and science have been slipping. Not too bad though when the only people I know who get straight As in every course are overachievers who spend every moment trying to please the teacher, so they can get good grades and get into Harvard (or Cornell), or math geeks (since teachers in social studies, English, and World Language, where I do well, are far more lenient than math and science teachers generally are).

As for tests: until last year I always aced them in every subject, so what point in studying?
Then I got a B- and a C on some Chemistry tests. . .
I still only have to study for science tests though, so far anywhen. Damn formulas and statistics.

I, unfortunately, am one of those students with I higly retentive memory and a deep well of background information.

Since as a result I never had to work, it's since begun to catch up with me in some classes, and actually working and expending more than a half hour of my time for any class to get As is a difficult adjustment (well, I did adjust to an hour of useless busiwork in math in middle school, but aside from that. . .)

Science is the only class I really ever study for. Speaking of which, I have a test tomorrow on hybrid and molecular orbitals, bonding and VSEPR stuff. And I should practice some of the reaction prediction worksheet problems we have...