Are you any good at reaching deadlines?  Or do you need some reminders or help to get to the deadline?

I'm generally okay with reaching deadlines.  I try to always make sure that I do my reading well in advance, after all it's not as though I'm doing anything else like going out for partying, and then the week before the deadline I do the essay to give the day before the deadline so I'm not surrounded by a rush of crowd to do so.

I am terrible about waiting until the last possible moment to complete an assignment.  I've always been that way, yet I always get good grades.  It is very stressful, though.  I'm trying to break that habit.

I have deadlines I should of followed... such as having my outline and first draft ready by tomorrow morning

I've always been a last-minute person, and I probably always will be.  I didn't know what to do with myself last night because I had my service notes all done and printed out on Friday.  I usually don't finish my sermon till 3am on Sunday morning.

Each of us need to make a "No-more-last-minute-commitments"

I've had to be organised for university work.  That is why I'm asking this general question, since I never used to be.  In fact I've had to learn hard and fast; although my mentor did give me a timetable to adapt and follow from.  Plus I'm always very aware of time.  I have to be organised but I've had to really work hard to learn how to organise.

I'd be the same way with it!    I find it interesting that a lot of us do the same thing with this, I wonder why?

I have no concept of time, none.  I think perhaps that is part of the problem.

I'm needing lessons on how to stay organized.... if it is hard :-\

Once when I was a kid, I got into a lot of trouble for not getting a piece of homework in on time.  I got quite a lecture on time and keeping it in on time that hence the time table, I just have to incorporate it, otherwise I'll get shouted at again and that was horrible.  So, I've had to learn and I am still learning.  It's one of the reasons why I have a mentor, it's her timetable that I'm following (from one hour to another hour) and that is why I always carry a clock with me. Although another problem that I have  (had) is also focusing too much on favourites instead of focusing on all equally...

I'm doing it again tonight, I'd better go write this paper!   Seriously, I have to do better with my time next quarter, because the following quarter I'm going to be taking double the work load.

I got good marks in high school despite the fact that I never even did assignments unless teachers insisted I do them - which meant that I never got started until after the assignments were due.

I've started on tertiary studies twice. More than 20 years apart. And didn't last more than a few months each time. I miss deadlines, let work pile up, I'm a disaster when it comes to study.

I do things at the last possible moment.

I find it easier to meet deadlines with reading than writing because it's more straightforward to break down a reading task into manageable chunks.