I've got an essay to write, no big deal, just 3 pages double-spaced. It's due in 2 hours....I have the intro done. Why can't I start these damn things on time? Why do I have trouble expanding my thoughts past 3/4 of a page? I've said it all already...why waste all that time/paper just to fill it out?

I hate writing papers...I'm really good at it, but I'm too succint. Not enough detail, just summarizing my thoughts. Man school can be frustrating.

I came on here to get motivated to finish it off, but instead just feel like ranting and complaining about how much i hate school.

ugh...19 days without a cigarette...must hang in there!

Great job on the quitting---hang in there.

As for the paper you could do what I did, start figuring out my average to see I had any room for "play", an academic cushion, if you will. If so, then relax. If not then title the darn thing Tired, Frustrated Girl Writes Crappy Paper and hope for the best. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

If you do tank this one, try the peer coaching section. Enter the due dates of your papers and perhaps folks will help you begin sooner.

Normies are stupid... They can't read the compressed stuff we generate.

Go back and break up your introduction into the required number of paragraphs and compose two or three details demonstrating each point. Then compare them. Then contrast them. That will expand your paper and it will all be "on topic."

... and it will take up huge amounts of space! Maybe three pages....

Good luck.

This is my first post... I'm sure your essay has come n gone already by the time I got here :) But I just started taking Concerta yesterday, and I am just in the mood to write my own.. Bear with me?
I know what your feeling.. I would start a paper the night before, write a sentence and then say I'll get up early to write the rest (yeah, i lie to myself, lol).. So right around and hour or 2 before its due I just stop thinking and start typing.. My class had to meet with the prof individually to talk about our papers and what we needed to improve (she was a great prof, I have yet to have anyone else help like that).. She actually liked my condensed versions.. I tend to use 1 big word that can sum up several not so big words.. Though I never once understood what I was writing about, or usually what I read either, I somehow pulled a B in both freshman englishes..
I didn't know I had ADD at the time(I honestly don't think ADD ever crossed my radar except with hyperactive middle school boys), I thought everyone was just as goofy as me but that they were better at hiding it *grin* . My best friend through high school has always been as goofy.. Other people didn't really understand us, so we kept to our goofy selves.. Somehow between her inattention and mine, I never knew she had ADD.. I knew she was on some medication, but I don't think I ever thought to ask what for.. I didnt understand this whole loss of appetite side effect, and good god I do now.. I used to force her to eat.. We parted ways for college, and I think she stopped the meds, because now she eats more.. Anyhow.. I spent my freshman year at a party school (bad bad choice), then transferred to the same school as my best friend.. We got an apt together.. and if this keeps up shes going to be the one forcing me to eat.. Back to what I was originally talking about..I think?

It just made its ugly self known when I just couldnt sit down and study, and bombed sophomore classes that didn't come naturally to me(or were boring.. Intro to Molecular Bio, anyone?) .. Months and months of being absolutely clueless, and feeling more and more helpless and like a failure, before a guy I was dating that had ADHD pointed out that I could have ADD.. I was so lost and confused that I started looking into it.. I had so many misconceptions it was unbelievable.. I took one of those online screener thingys.. and told a very not ADD friend of mine to do it too, so I could see the differences, and he was like whoa..you're like that? I guess I hid it well ..High school had been a joke to me, I skated right through it.. I *almost* wish that it had been a challenge.. Maybe then I would have noticed it sooner.. I always did worse when I tried to study so I just didn't. I thought "well if I don't know it now, im not gonna know it." It never occurred to my mother either, though she had to keep after me to get anything done.. She gave up and starting making consequences if I didn't do whatever (chores etc), and I still managed to lose track of time then not remember until I had this impending sense of doom.. Then ^%$&$ I forgot to do this huge list of things.. I eventually figured out if she only told me one thing at a time, and didnt give me another to do, that it would get done..eventually.. but at least done.. Poor mom wasted more time hounding me then it actually took to take out the trash, or whatever..
Ok
I think.. I might..be..done..talking...
So Strange, I'm not usually that chatty lol
I'll be back :)
Lindsey