time crunch

I find it extremely interesting that all four groups were in the gallery the two nights before constructing and installing their work in the most efficient manners of work I had seen for this entire project. The time crunch truly creates efficiency and time management, and if there were a way to create that sort of response without the looming deadline, than people would be incredibly successful (or maybe that is the trick of those who are). This is something we have dealt with all semester, and something most people have dealt with much of their lives. The feelings that you can work on it later, procrastination. Where does it come from and why is it so powerful?

This is not to say people did no work on the project all semester, but the number of prototypes each group had were a fraction of what they should have been. I just wonder how to get rid of this habit we all have of putting things off until there is a fearful deadline that must be met, and I think of the amazing things we could do should we use all of our time and use it wisely...