May 13, 2003 - Do they give scholarships for procrastination?

I just finished writing an essay that is due tomorrow and was assigned to me about 2 months ago. It's a research paper. Surely, you say, surely I had all the research done already and just needed to synthesize it into a paper, right? You would be wrong. Well, then, when did I start this research? Noon. Today. Well, you say, I am sure that's just a fluke, a 4.0 student on her way to Berkeley surely doesn't make a habit of such abominable study habits! Again, you would be wrong. I have become a legend in my classes for writing my papers as late as a half hour before they are due. Campus mystery: "how is donnelly getting a 4.0????" I have no idea. I am pretty sure that karma is going to come back to bite me in the ass about it, though. I have nightmares that someone is going to show up for me, tell me it was a clerical error and give me my REAL transcript littered with B's. (shudder, the horror, the HORROR!!) They'll show me secret videotaped footage of me in the computer lab typing up film analysis at 1:00 for my 1:30 film history class, or frantically digging through my anatomy book to figure out where the hell the flexor pollicus longus is in relation to the flexor carpi ulnaris right before my lab practical....I am going to academic hell. Actually, I think this next week and a half is going to be my academic hell - I have 6 finals. joy.