Talk:Academic procrastination

lol...I found this page while procrastinating. I should be finishing the at-home portion of a test right now!

Ditto.—jiy (talk) 10:16, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this an article? Shaggorama 11:28, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. Doesn't really seem to be a subject in its own right. I did a quick web search and found a journal study that mentions the apparently high prevalence of procrastination in academia (I added the relevant statistic to the article), but I think this article is a non starter. Also, some of the stub is clearly in non-encyclopedic form. May I suggest merging into the main article on procrastination? Tranzid 20:40, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want to step on whoever's toes wrote this, but I do not feel the following paragraphs are either encyclopedic or relevant to the title of the article. I have removed them, and pasted them here, and welcome discussion. Prehaps the ideas herein could be more usefully merged into International students. Tranzid 21:26, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"It is much harder for an international student to break the chain of procrastination because every decision taken whether big or small, needs to be made carefully. The battle of procrastination as complex as it is, at least initially is an everyday struggle. it is very easy to cross over from careful decision making to obsessing about the process owing to overwhelming stress. Stress about getting adapted to the new culture while retaining one's ethnic beliefs, being able to comprehend that racist slurs arise from gross misperception and ignorance, managing financial expenditure and maintaining good grades at school are but a few dilemmas that can cause immense anxiety.

All international students go through these issues, and one has to be a tough cookie to battle the monster called procarastination that can thrive in these circumstances, unless one has essential internal and external resources to battle it out. Bearing this in mind, always tap resources, make a list of resources- both, internal and external to combat the stress and anxiety and assess which resource can be most effective in different trying situations. Struggle through the list, but once the list is complete, a certain level of competence is inevitably felt and it could turn out to be a life saver."

Merge - There's no reason why this should be it's own article, seperate from Procrastination. It admits in the first line that there is no distinction, diagnostic or otherwise. Trnj2000 17:34, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article should be retained, and not merged. Although the article is just a stub, the subject deserves to stand on its own, because it involves solutions to the procrastination of a particluar set of tasks (study, homework, etc.), from the perspective of being a student, developed and provided by the huge counseling and support network in the secondary education system which has dedicated an enormous amount of resources to deal with this problem in the academic setting for the purpose of improving the education of students. The subject deals mostly with methods to stop putting off reading, writing, and studying for exams. Because of these distinctions, and the specific needs of students, the topic should be presented in an article which focuses on them. There is plenty of subject matter available for an article with this scope. Let this stub grow into such an article. --The Transhumanist 23:37, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Deserves its own article. Academic procrastination can in many ways be different from other forms of procrastination, most people have or will do some kind of academic procrastination, but when you study you most likely want to do everything at once, and it is easy to just postpone a bit of your academic work. This does not, however, mean that you have a problem or will have a problem with procrastination in other parts of your life in, for example, a work setting.