20. Blog Final Evaluation

Writing this blog has been a positive experience. Perhaps I will continue it from time to time. Perhaps as often as I wrote the first two months I was supposed to. These posts always took last priority because there was always so much time to finish them in. Then this last week, the date snuck up on me, and I realized I had 16 blog entries to write in half as many days.

Never fearing, I determined that I would just write two a day until I was done. Then this weekend, I still had 8 to go, and no time to do it in. I was a bit unhappy, but figured I still could procrastinate until the morning it was due. As I was driving home with a friend on Saturday night, I joked that the takeaway I would write about in my evaluative conclusion was going to be that procrastination was okay.

Fate had other ideas.

Yesterday, when I still had multiple posts to write, I pulled out my computer to write my little brother who is on a mission. A few minutes later, the screen went blue and I knew my computer was a goner. Then the realization hit me that so too was any hope I had of tranquilly finishing my blog posts before writing class time.

Thus it was that I got up early and was walking the 15 minutes to the library this morning in the snow and the dark. Luckily for me, there are still 24 minutes until I need to go to class, so I suppose procrastination is still sort of okay. But the real lesson here is that it's not. You never know what is going to happen to your computer. Preparation is the key to success, not waiting. What if the library opened at 8, instead of 7? I would have had an hour less to do this in. What if the internet in the library had been down because of the snow storm? There are hundreds of additional misfortunes that could have befallen me (and hopefully won't in the next 24 minutes....) And what about breakfast?!

Planning things out and getting them done in a timely manner is better than waiting until necessity plans them for you - hopefully.

But all things considered, I have enjoyed this blogging assignment. I have appreciated the opportunity to write down my thoughts and feelings, to think about them and develop them. Unfortunately, my procrastination severely restricted my creative ability: you can't rush genius. Again, don't procrastinate, you'll perform better.