Level7-U1 -Part 1-On Procrastination 1
1. So in college, I was a government major(政务专业), which means I had to write a lot of papers(论文).
2. Now, when a normal student writes a paper, they might spread the work(分摊工作) out a little like this.
3. So, you know.
4. you get started maybe a little slowly, but you get enough done in the first week that, with some heavier days later on(后来), everything gets done, things stay civil(文明).
5. And I would want to do that like that.
6. That would be the plan.
7. I would have it all ready to go, but then, actually, the paper would come along, and then I would kind of do this.
8. And that would happen every single paper.
练：
1. How Urban thinks normal students organize their time.
2. To contrast what Urban intended to do with what he actually did.
3. Things stay civil means the situation is manageable.
4. He would plan to manage his time well, but always to waited until the last minute to write his papers.
5. He waited until the last minute to begin.
6. To procrastinate means to put off doing something.
7. The graphs contrast how he planned his work with how he actually did his work.带如的成语
8. They spread it out over a period of time.
9. To procrastinate means to put off doing something.
知识点：
1. paper assigned 论文分配 2. paper due 论文到期时间。
Level7-U1 -Part 1-On Procrastination 2
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1. But then came my 90-page nior thesis, a paper you're suppod to spend a year on.
2. And I knew for a paper like that, my normal work flow(工作流程滑模) was not an option. It was way too big a project. 讨厌下雨天
3. So I planned things out, and I decided I kind of had to go something like this.
4. This is how the year would go.
5. So I'd start off(开始出发) light, and I'd bump it up(提升，增加) in the middle months, an
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d then at the end, I would kick it up into high gear(全力以赴) just like a little stairca. How hard could it be to walk up the stairs?
6. No big deal(如何办理失业证没有什么了不起的刘奭), right?
7. But then, the funniest thing happened. Tho first few months?
8. They came and went, and I couldn't quite do stuff(材料，资料).
9. So we had an awesome new revid(校正) plan.
10. And then --But then tho middle months actually went by(时间逝去), and I didn't really write words, and so we were here.
11. And then two months turned into one month, which turned into two weeks.
12. And one day I woke up with three days until the deadline, still not having written a word, and so I did the only thing I could:
13. I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours, pulling not one but two all-nighters(通宵整整两天) -- humans are not suppod to pull two all-nighters(熬两个通宵) –
14. sprinted(冲刺) across campus, dove(dive潜水过去式) in slow motion, and got it in just at the deadline.
心有独钟李佩玲15. I thought that was the end of everything.
16. But a week later I get a call, and it's the school.
17. And they say, "Is this Tim Urban?" And I say, "Yeah."
办公室助理18. And they say, "We need to talk about your thesis." And I say, "OK."
19. And they say, "It's the best one we've ever en."
20. That did not happen.
21. It was a very, very bad thesis.
22. I just wanted to enjoy that one moment when all of you thought, "This guy is amazing!"
23. No, no, it was very, very bad.
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1. Anyway, today I'm a writer-blogger guy. I write the blog Wait But Why(<打破砂锅问到底>一个栏目).
2. And a couple of years ago, I decided to write about procrastination.
3. My behavior has always perplexed(困惑) the non-procrastinators around me, and I wanted to explain to the non-procrastinators of the world.
4. what goes on in the heads of procrastinators, and why we are the way we are.
