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Howdy all!

Chris and I just finished recording an episode on Procrastination, which will be episode 47 (be sure to catch it), and it got me thinking: It’s been a long while since I’ve done a blog. I could lie to you all and say I didn’t have time and things just began to pile up with school and the MCAT coming up, but let’s be honest—it only takes about 10 minutes to sit down and write. So, I sit here reflecting, much like Gopi (not to as great an extent, though), on how I let procrastination turn an easy 10 minute task into a learning experience.

Procrastinating is an easy thing to do. For me it can take a simple half hour TV show that gets me derailed from what I am supposed to be doing, and let me tell you I caught a couple of them not writing this blog. I also find myself making up excuses like I need to clean my room in order to study. To be honest with you, my room is usually a mess and when I don’t have anything to do it doesn’t make my priority list. So, why do I do it?

Simple anwser: I don’t know. It seems to happen to everyone, especially the people I know at school. Everyone puts off big papers, big projects, and simple homework assignments until it’s almost too late to even get them done. This makes for a hectic time around the end of the year, and with it comes a whole bunch of complaining. I complain, my roommates complain, my neighbors complain, my classmates complain, and it always centers on two things: One, I shouldn’t have done this, what was I thinking?! And two, what was this teacher thinking. He/She assigned too much, this is outrageous to ask me to do, and what is the point of having me doing this anyway?

What does this equal? A WHOLE LOT OF STRESS and it’s all unnecessary. After I go through a hectic period that is caused by my procrastination, I vow to myself that I will be on top of things next time, and not go through this again. What actually happens, though, is Sportscenter is on and is far more appealing than starting to study for the MCAT, and I once again get stressed out.

It’s something I can’t shake, sometimes I am better than others, but procrastination usually pokes into my life at some point and I am left scrambling to get things done.

After doing the show, however, there are several things I can do. I will do my best to implement them and let you all know how it goes!

Cheers, Ryan