It's almost three in the morning, I'm half way through writing a paper due tomorrow and here I am reading the goats forum. If the self inflicted acts of villainy thread was still current then this would definitely count. Does anyone else become self destructive at the end of term and if so, what is the dumbest way you have wasted precious time?

I once played final fantasy tactics advance through the endtire last two weeks and then through finals week.

Sadly, it didn't affect my grades.

End of term? Try all the freaking time. Say I have a paper due Wednesday. Obviously, I don't work on it over the weekend. I may have tried to gather a few sources the week before, maybe not. I'll set aside time Monday or Tuesday to do it, and wind up reading etiquettehell.com or the archives of a new webcomic or all the forums I post on, reloading obsessively to see if there are new posts. For hours at a time.

Then I wind up doing the entire paper Tuesday night and Wednesday during the day. My classes are all 4:30-7pm, so I have time during the day to finish stuff. But a couple times this term I had to claim printer problems so I could finish it that night after class and bring it to the prof's office the next day.

In Response to porcupine8 (#16506):

That sounds like me. It just gets really bad at the end of term when a whole bunch of stuff is due all at once. Thank god for "printer problems" the easiest of all excuses, unless the prof wants you to email a copy instead.

In Response to jen (#16522):

I usually email my papers, actually - but so far nobody's noticed that the few times I've turned in a hard copy, my printer went on the fritz....

In Response to porcupine8 (#16506):

wind up reading etiquettehell.com

May you burn in hell for all of eternity. I have been reading this site [etiquetthell.com] for, I see now, around 3 hours.

May you fall into a very deep pit with very slippery sides.

Civilization III

Twelve hours at a time will just about make that "Great googlymoogly, what have I done?!" reflex kick in at 0800 Monday morning.

been there. done that.

I am so relieved that now I am paid to do what previously I had been paying to do.

In Response to jen (#16522):

Thank god for "printer problems" the easiest of all excuses

Some additional coursework excuses I've found to be both simple and highly effective:

• Email about an hour before class: "I finished my paper, but I really think there's more I could to say to really bring my topic home... could I bring it to you in the morning?" (Be warned, profs might ask for a working draft, but if you've already done some work, that's not hard to provide)
• "I didn't get a chance to print off my paper, so I emailed it to you..." followed a day later by...
• I don't understand why the campus server is having trouble with my email... apparently it doesn't work when I attach Word files..."

I hope some of those are helpful. I just finished finals yesterday. Joy!

In Response to Deathalicious (#16537):

I have been reading this site [etiquetthell.com] for, I see now, around 3 hours

Three hours on a "This server does not exist" page? That's either sad or impressive, I'm not sure which.

How about checking out this site [etiquettehell.com], which is probably a lot more interesting.

Does anyone else become self destructive at the end of term and if so, what is the dumbest way you have wasted precious time?

I'm nine years out of school and still do it. Last night I worked until 3:30 am on a website prototype that people looked at for maybe 5 minutes. I had procrastinated working on it for only a few weeks...

Dumbest waste of precious time? I coded a message board from scratch instead of just installing something. Couple of years down the toilet on that one.

In Response to codeslave (#16597):

I coded a message board from scratch instead of just installing something.

as opposed to rewriting slash, you mean?

In Response to daubergoat (#16590):

Damn you, damn you!

Now I haven't slept for three weeks.

End of term? I become self-destructive at the end of evening. Good luck with exams.

In Response to themysticalone (#16502):

*TWEET*

Red Card: Today's laws forbid homework!

GO TO PRISON.

oh god that sounds like every paper i've ever written. i went through a lot of 2L bottles of coca-cola during my last semester.

i often wasted time with doodling. so much time spent filling the margins of my paper with mindless drawings of zombies and cows. and zombie cows.

In Response to codeslave (#16597):

I've done that to...heavy heavy modifications (basically an entire rewrite) of an asp messageboard instead of just convincing them to switch to a *nix server and install phpBB

In Response to mcgrue (#16655):

That happened to me once. I got sent to jail because I tried to do homework instead of play the game. It seemed ironic at the time.

In Response to Deathalicious (#16537):

Muahaha. It is like a very entertaining train wreck. Perhaps a circus train wreck, with burning clowns still trying to ride unicycles and juggle.

Installed new springs on my car the day before a Calculus midterm resulting in a 75 =(

No, no, I've done worst. Sat over at some douche bag's house for about 4 hours doing absolutely fucking nothing. But I didn't enjoy it, so maybe that doesn't count?

I first discovered Goats at the beginning of finals week, Spring 2003. Every waking moment, I either studied or read the archive, surviving on Triscuits and Bass Ale.