"I do much more work for other classes thanI've ever done to avoid my thesis and nonethelessfeel good about myself [by] not wasting time,"Furman says.
Winthrop House Senior Tutor Greg Mobley saysthere are "a handful of spectacular cases ofprocrastination" but stresses that most studentswork in an orderly fashion.
"The problem is sometimes [seniors] let othercourses slide when they are writing theirthesis--they can want to work on one thing at atime--and risk not graduating if they fail thecourse," Mobley says.
Assistant Dean for Undergraduate EducationJeffrey Wolcowitz, who was once the Dunster Housesenior tutor, says one student he knew wanted towithdraw from the spring semester because he wasworried his thesis was "going nowhere."
"He completed it one time and got a summa,"Wolcowitz says.
Of course, if you really want to procrastinate,there are fool-proof methods.
Richard C. Glen '94 calls himself an "honestprocrastinator."
"I just don't turn the computer on," Glen says."I just don't even bother