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Originally Posted by LifeFirst 
Most people could finish a paper in 4-5 hours, but it took me days and nights and weeks. But my mind tends to get off track a lot.
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Yeah right! Don't be so hard on yourself, and don't assume that every one else thinks writing papers is easy. It's not! I've never written a 20+ page paper in my life, so I think you've accomplished a lot. You say you never do what you are supposed to, but you did write the paper, right? So you
did do something you were "supposed" to.
I've been writing a bunch of papers these last two weeks because I'm graduating, and all of these papers are only 5-6 pages in length. On average it takes me 6-7 hours to write a paper, and I usually can't do it all at once because, like you, I am endlessly distracted. So usually it takes 2 or 3 days of writing in chunks until I get it done. So for me at least, I can not write a long paper in 4-5 hours. No way. You are doing great. The reason you probably aren't benefiting from your "failures" is that you don't apply the lessons you learn. I would say the lesson for this time was that you didn't leave yourself enough time to do the paper and the presentation. If you want to benefit from this, you have to learn from it, and change how you do things in the future. So next time, give yourself more time.
And I know it sucks, but if you do fail the class, you can always re-take it (I've done this before)! It's not the end of the world, it's just a bump in the road.