r/ucla • u/Internal_Jeweler90 • 13h ago
I waste so much time and I hate it
I procrastinate so much and I feel like between when I wake up and when I go to bed nothing happens. Its so sad because at the end of the day I swear I won't do it anymore and I'll actually focus, get my work done, and get to do something worthwhile but it never ends up happening. I have a list of things I want to do and I haven't scratched any of them off. Even right now I'm telling myself tomorrow is the day.
I can't do assignments until the very last minute and I always regret doing the whole stressful last minute routine. It is so upsetting. Before going to college I had time to exercise, do my hobbies, go out with friends. Now I don't do any of that. Instead of reading or watching something when I have downtime I just scroll. I hate myself. The only thing I do is homework and studying and classes I don't feel like I'm living at all. My classes are hard but not so hard that it should be all I do. I waste so much time doing something that would take so little time if I actually sat down and focused. I just keep dragging it out :(
Does anyone have any advice on how to stop. It is 8pm and I wasted another entire day doing nothing. I'm so lucky to go to this school and these 4 yrs are going by way too fast in the future I'm going to look back at what I did here and say wtf why didn't I try harder or make the most out of it. I want to stop so badly and I'm telling myself tomorrow is that day but I've been saying this for so long now.