Academic work speed

[dr.walrus]

So I've established that there's a lot of undergraduates on here, and I'm mid-essay right now (yep, at 2am, deadline at noon :lick:), and I'm ploghing through this assignment at record speed, 1000 words per hour peak.

Which left me wondering, how fast do people normally work? I have a friend who sets herself targets of 300 words per day - wtf? I don't normally wait to last minute, but I do always, always work at a really fast pace in bursts, often post midnight.

What about you guys? Are you tortoises or hares? Or, like, ligers. Which would be cooler but more awkwar for this analogy.

omg ligers. so cool.

http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/liger.jpg

Thios is what 3600 words, two cans of monster, a bottle of red wine and twenty marlboro reds do to you.

[knowledgegranted]

So I've established that there's a lot of undergraduates on here, and I'm mid-essay right now (yep, at 2am, deadline at noon :lick:), and I'm ploghing through this assignment at record speed, 1000 words per hour peak.

Which left me wondering, how fast do people normally work? I have a friend who sets herself targets of 300 words per day - wtf? I don't normally wait to last minute, but I do always, always work at a really fast pace in bursts, often post midnight.

What about you guys? Are you tortoises or hares? Or, like, ligers. Which would be cooler but more awkwar for this analogy.

omg ligers. so cool.

http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/liger.jpg

Thios is what 3600 words, two cans of monster, a bottle of red wine and twenty marlboro reds do to you.


I usually do my papers before class. But I'm in highschool, so it kinda changes things.

[dr.walrus]

I usually do my papers before class. But I'm in highschool, so it kinda changes things.

Hey, at least you DO your school work. I rarely ever even submitted work until I was 18

[x88x]

I generally put stuff off until the night before, plow through it through the night and morning, go to class and hand it in, and then go home and pass out... So I guess I'd be a hare as well. I find that if I write part of an essay and then come back to it later, I've got no clue what I was going on about, whereas if I just do it all in one go I actually maintain a single thread of thought and everything generally just makes more sense.

[artoodeeto]

I generally put stuff off until the night before, plow through it through the night and morning, go to class and hand it in, and then go home and pass out... So I guess I'd be a hare as well. I find that if I write part of an essay and then come back to it later, I've got no clue what I was going on about, whereas if I just do it all in one go I actually maintain a single thread of thought and everything generally just makes more sense.

YES! that's how I used to work too. Although until I got a bad case of senioritis my last couple quarters of college, I usually did research papers a few days prior to when they were due. But as with X88X, I found that I put out my best product when I was forced by a deadline to focus on it. when I didn't have a deadline, there were too many other distractions for me to effectively focus my energy.

[dr.walrus]

This is all very reassuring. I wrote 3000 words post-midnight and I'm just about to hand it in!

[Trace]

I like to write at least a full paragraph in one sitting.
I find i write a terrible rough draft. turn it in, then come back and revise, revise, revise

[Diamon]

I usually do my work over about 2-3 days. Oddly those 2-3 days always seems to be the last days before I need to turn it in ^^

[Luthien]

I have to do the whole assignment at once, whether I do it a few days early or the night before it's due. When I'm working, that's it - that's all I'm doing. I can't stop and come back to it later.