Admissions Essay: Procrastination At Faiss Middle School

It was mid-morning when I pulled up to school, still wondering if I made the right decision by enrolling. Instead of feeling calm, cool, and collected the only thing arriving early did was increase the feeling of impending doom. My mind was racing a mile a minute. Am I going to be able keep up to the bright minds fresh out of high school? It was time to find out.

Soon, I discovered a method to avoid the potential of feeling insubstantial, if only for a few more hours or days. Thus, allow me to introduce you to an old friend, procrastination. My way of thinking soon became, “If I’m not going to get an A, then why even put the effort in?” and consequently, innumerable assignments were put off until five in the morning where it would be due in two hours or it would never reach my teacher’s hands at all. I’m sure most teachers believed the cause to be laziness or a lack of ambition, however I strongly believe that if they’d known the constant stress, self-doubt, and exhaustion that I

So staying to true form after facing the two big issues causing my procrastination I immediately began procrastinating my solving procrastination. However after two days I realized that this really was a problem that needed solving right here and now. So I began to brainstorm how I could solve my problem. The next week of the class couldn’t have come at a better time since we focused mainly on procrastination. After reviewing my notes from that class and looking to the textbook for advice, I found the solutions to my first problem to-do lists, calendars, timers, and specific study and work times with

While reading Too Cool for School by Ellis Cose I have became aware of various aspects of my ‘schooling’ experience. I realized that I may not have had the best schooling experience, but I never pushed up against the system to get any better. Throughout my life I have attended over 10 schools some very high end others bottom of the barrel. Like Cose, I always knew my intellectual abilities, but I was always so dissatisfied with my situation I didn't make the best of it. Instead of soaking up as much knowledge as possible and making a lesson out of my situation I became complacent. I started to slack off and allow myself to become stagnant to what I knew my abilities were. I allowed myself to be a product of my environment when I should I have

     To procrastinate is to put off doing something out of casual carelessness or common laziness. It often needlessly postpones or delays events or objectives in your life which can effect others. Procrastination is almost like a drug in your life, because once you start doing it a little bit, it slowly adds up to a dependency that you will find to be common habit. Although this is what we all perceive procrastination to be bad, there are some benefits to it. It can have beneficial impact on how you take pressure, or how well you can act when time is limited.

Attention Getter: A famous author by the name of Wayne Dyer once said, “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is incredibly heavy.”(1) In todays society it seems as if procrastination has become a normal and acceptable thing to do. It is often joked about amongst schoolmates and co-workers around the world. Nothing seems to get done until it absolutely needs to get done, then everyone runs around getting things done quickly and often times inaccurately. The trouble with this mentality however is that some things will never get done because something will come up tomorrow or the next day and what you are putting off now gets pushed even further back. Today I will persuade you to stop this habit from continuing. I will be explaining the problems we face when dealing with procrastination as well as how to deal with it and actions you can take to prevent it in the future.

The problem of procrastination starts when a student waits until minutes before a class to study for a class. This may seem like a solution for students who are pressed for time; however, this doesn’t allow time for the information to be solidified and vital information can be lost. These behaviors form because students have found that in the past they were able to successfully pass the class by doing their homework literally hours before the projects deadline. This reckless learning may help pass the class, but doesn’t give the information the time needed to be solidified into memory. This reckless learning also produces effects within projects that are often below the students’ academic level and can cause

According to Semb, Glick and Spencer (1979), the level of procrastination increases as an individual stays longer in universities. It was stated by Ellis and Knaus (1977) that approximately, over 70% of college students engage in this activity. Undergraduates tend to start papers during the last minute; they fail to prioritize what should be accomplished first, and as a result, their academic performance is greatly affected. A detrimental effect on their studies leads to having poor grades and eventually, failure in class (Semb, et.al., 1979).

As my 9th grade year begun, I was beyond thrilled because I was now being known as a freshman of McGehee High School. Besides being away from the teachers and their ridiculous rules in Junior High, I no longer had to worry about being called “the little kids” by the seniors and juniors because we were now all in the same building. What I did have to worry about was getting the amount of credits I needed to pass into the next grade, and to graduate once I made it to the 12th grade. Throughout my entire freshman year, I made sure that I did every assignment and studied for every test because I didn 't want to start on a wrong foot. There would be some days when I didn’t want to do anything, so instead of trying I would get all the answers from my friend. I could see that many days she would get annoyed by me always asking for the answers, so I made a promise to myself that I wouldn’t ask anyone else for an answer that I was capable of

One thing that plagues college students and disrupts the balance of college life everywhere is the dreaded act of procrastination, but with a strict academic work regimen students can overcome this detrimental grade wrecking behavior, and ultimately restore the balance of productive academics that will have a positive impact on their grades and their stress levels.

Today, I still leave most of the work to do on the day before the deadline. Taking me always delayed reviewing knowledge and told myself I must brush up tomorrow and procrastinated everyday…until the day before the test as an example, there is obviously that I knew I have too much knowledge to comprehend and remember, but it’s too late. I only reviewed one third at last. When given the feedback, I remember my mother saying, “You did a pretty good job on this test.” She pointed the paper which marked the failed score. I had nothing to do except being silent. “It’s also a lesson to avoid procrastination.” I took notes on the book to remind me.

With the final moments of the year creeping up upon us, like a snake in the grass, we, the students have undergone dramatic alterations. I personally have conquered my dragon. The mighty dragon has been slain. Progressively throughout the school year I became better with my time management and self confidence. It had disappeared, however, with the assistance of family and my closest friends I have matured immensely. The word “procrastination” will no longer be a factor in my life. I figured out that when I start assignments early, I discovered that I have free time. Consequently, self-confidence will always be an issue in my life, but with dedication anything can be done.

“I’ll stop procrastinating…Tomorrow.” This is a mindset that is possessed by a majority of students today. Although putting off writing that English paper until the night before it is due may not seem like a big deal, it has many harmful effects. In fact, what better topic is there for that English paper? Very few are spared from the epidemic known as procrastination. Even less overcome this issue. In order to successfully defeat procrastination, we must first understand it.

Two years ago, I comfortable raced through the last months of my High School career. However, apart from imperatively aiming my attention over my studies, I unwittingly turned the rest of my focus on fiddling matters, which haplessly settled into habits. Instead of reading a book, I settled for a movie; instead of improving my tennis abilities, I watched others improve theirs; instead of taking a full night’s sleep, I harped my guitar’s strings through the night.

Have you ever had an essay due in three weeks and thought to yourself, “I’ve got time. I’ll just do it later”? Does staying up studying for an exam until 3 am in the morning sound familiar? How about running to class because you were working on a project until the very last second? If any of these unfortunate situations sound relatively familiar, you have endured the horrendous event of procrastination at some point of your jam-packed life. The one secret that nobody is enforcing on your young life is the extreme power of time management. In Chapter 5, the topics we address are as follows: