I'm taking a project management grad class, and as expected, it's the biggest waste of time anyone could have possibly fathomed.  One of the things that project management losers talk about is how more time leads to better stuff.  When you have more time to do a project, you'll get better results.  I wrote about this a while ago, saying something along the lines of how it would be nice if work and school were spaced out so that I could keep a steady pace and get a good amount of work done, instead of rushing through stuff and then sitting idly for weeks at a time.  The idea makes sense in principle.  More time means less stress, which means better quality work, which means better results. 

But in practice, I think the exact opposite is true:  The more time you have, the worse work you'll do.  And this is mainly because of laziness.  Many people have a tendency to push things off until the last minute, even when they're given ample time to do something.  So they try to cram a huge amount of work into a small amount of time, they end up cutting corners and doing sub-par work, and the final product is rushed and filled with errors.  It's true in work as well as in school. 

But all throughout school (which has taken up about 70% of my life at this point), I found that last-minute work was often very successful.  As my brother-in-law Nick says, "When you wait till the last minute to do something, it only takes a minute to do."  How true.  I've completed huge amounts of work and studying when there was almost no time left.  I've done amazing work in small amounts of time because I didn't sit around putting it off and thinking about it.  And even at work, I've come up with ideas and implemented them in record (small) amounts of time simply because I waited till the last minute to start working. 

The lesson I learn from this is that last minute work is often better and more productive than work that's done over a larger period of time.  So I say put things off, do nothing, and just give up.  That's the moral of the story. #education