Hofstadter's law
student syndrome
lastminutitis
expeditiousness
precrastination
overtime
lick and a promise
keep one's nose to the grindstone
keep one's shoulder to the wheel
peg away
plug away
yak shaving
slog
faff
longmindedness
time-consuming
wasteful
uneconomical
long-range
bikeshedding
procrastination
cunctation
overlength
procrastinatingly
shillyshally
overwait
overworking
surpassing
hum and haw
California minute
hurry up and wait
overwork
compulsive streak
take one's time
timewasting
a bridge too far
take one's sweet time
sometime
unrestingness
displacement activity
arrestation
drawn-out
inveteracy
treadmill
bred-in-the-bone
above and beyond
against time
make short work of
long finger
cunctatory
leg
bottleneck
go
will
overhaste
tasky
complicatedness
in one's own time
laggardly
superserviceable
timeout
time-sensitive
overengineered
time-critical
stretch
stint
excess
suddenness
nut cutting
industry
persevere
precipitousness
precipitance
on the wrong track
expedience
speedfulness
precipitancy
chronophagous
precipitateness
abruptness
short-sightedness
overtiredness
staircase wit
overeagerness
window of time
isochronal
cop-out
shilly-shally
outstripping
diligence
put off
belatedness
brainstorm
overcommitment
procrastibaking
time-out
time immemorial
like painting the Forth Bridge
gruelling