It's Time To Procrastinate In High School

High schoolers are known to be overwhelmed and pressured by schoolwork, parents, sports, and extracurricular activities. We spend seven hours a day at school, proceed to do 3.5 hours of homework on average, and many of us end the day with sports practices. With crammed schedules it is no surprise that many of us decide to put certain assignments off until the very last minute. I am (not) proud to say that I am part of an exclusive procrastination club that operates 24/7. Through my secondary school years I have grown to be more independent; however, this came at a great consequence of having to constantly remind myself to have a strong sense of motivation and stay on top of assignments. Although procrastination may not be a trait many wish to have, I believe it is a fine art and when handled correctly, can still lead to success.

All my life I have been a lazy person, doing just enough to get by. Most of the time, in high school, I was content with just a “C”. The only time I wasn’t, was if it was a class I liked, and I paid attention to. If this was the case, I could have received a 99% on a test and been dissatisfied. But, for the rest of my classes, which were most of my classes, that I didn’t like, I never paid attention to or did homework, and I still managed to do well on tests. So basically I didn’t do anything except take tests and I still got satisfactory grades. In school I was so lazy that there could have been a project due worth about 20% of the final grade and I still wouldn’t do it.

Many times in school people really stress out in doing their work on time and making sure to keep up with all their assignments.

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

Procrastination is never good. I know that first hand. I have done it all my life and there for a while I could get away with it. Then I got into high school. Before, I could do my homework and projects the night before in an hour or so. I tried that in high school, and instead of going to bed at 10 p.m., I would go to sleep around 3 a.m. because I waited to write a paper. Unfortunately, I’m not a very

With college approaching rapidly, procrastination will be a problem for many incoming freshman; however, in the article, Hansen says, “Don’t procrastinate; prioritize your life.”

I had always been a procrastinator, leaving everything to the last minute because I knew I could still finish in time. However, I could never put in a 100% effort because I never gave myself the necessary time. I don’t know why I did procrastinate; it would just happen for almost every assignment and I never stopped to question why I shouldn’t do it. Gradually, it became a habit, a norm, for me and the more I indulged in it, the more accustomed I got to it. I didn’t stop to think how my academics, social life, and health would be negatively affected.

This year school year I promised myself that I wouldn’t wait to the last minute to do my homework/assignments and I wanted to try to procrastinate less. So far I have been successful in doing so and I feel like my work ethic has gotten a lot better. For example, instead of waiting until Sunday to do my homework I’ll finish it on Friday or Saturday before coming back to school on Monday. This way I’ll have more free time during the weekend. The reason I chose to do this is that I was always stressed out because I would always wait until the last minute to do everything, so I went with the obvious solution. In doing this, I feel like my work has more quality and it makes me feel proud of it.

Procrastinating is the bane of most college students, if not all. Statements like “I’ll do it later” or “It’s not due until Monday”, define the poor choice of doing assignments at the last minute. Procrastinating leads up to a constant and looming pressure that builds up and up until the night before, cramming for ideas, which happens all night long, to finish. What are the results of procrastinating? The most accurate answer would be seldom a student’s best work; not performing one’s best work most likely means, the grades would come out the same (awful). Was it really worth it? Not a chance. Procrastinating can lead to distractions blocking the main focus of academic

I have a habit of procrastinating for most of my tests, examinations, and assignments. I developed this habit in elementary school, so I never really thought of fixing it. However, as I got into higher grades, I realized that I should try to fix it before I go to university, where managing my

In college, I hope to become a better version of myself in many ways. First, I hope to improve my study skills and work ethic. In high school I was a firm believer procrastination. I would always wait till the day before or sometimes a few hours before a test before i really took my time to study. My senior year was the worst, I usually waited till study hall or lunch to complete my homework. I’m praying I do not continue this habit in college. So far it has been hard to not procrastinate because I do not have classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I keep telling myself I have plenty of time to finish my assignments. For the last week now I have found myself staying up late finishing work. I hope I can get out of this habit by spacing

Procrastination was an obstacle in my academic life in which I planned to overcome at the start of the 2015 school year by becoming organized. I figured in order to stop being a procrastinator I would have to stop being disorganized. Dividing my work up into different days, keeping a calendar helped me overcome this obstacle this past semester. Being that this as my first semester in college, I feel as though I have learned a lot about myself, and have overcome something that was holding me back from being the student I should have been. In the future, I plan to continue to strive to turn my assignments in on time or even before.

Even though I may be a procrastinator, procrastinating is an effective tool. During school you get assigned a lot of assignments, some may be over fall break or even Christmas break. The best thing to do is to do your assignments as soon as you can and then the rest of your break is free time. When I get assigned something, I always tell myself, I am going to get it done before I do anything else, if not I will forget and have to do all my work on a Sunday before we go back to school. Not only can you be a procrastinator in school, but also when you have dentist and doctor appointments. “You even procrastinate when it comes to dieting, saving money, and sending important emails.

Procrastinating: we all do it, some of us more than others. Either way, it’s something we all complain about doing, but still always do, kind of like our schoolwork! As I sit here, 9 p.m on a Wednesday night, procrastinating this assignment, despite needing to be up at 4 a.m for my swim practice, I just simply have no idea what to do. I sat here for about 2 hours beforehand having no idea what to write this on. I spent the first 30 minutes watching youtube videos in my recommended, 15 minutes googling ideas for this topic, another 15 minutes complaining on my phone about this assignment, gave myself an hour break because I thought I deserved it, and spent the last 30 minutes yelling at myself to do this assignment. I was about to give up on doing some creative topic and do something generic like texting and driving, when I realized the answers literally right in front of me! Well no -not the blank screen- but what my mind was doing! Procrastinating! I don’t think I have ever been so excited to admit that procrastinating was the solution to my problem. So there I am, having my epiphany, realizing that this idea had potential. So being the typical high school student that I am, I took another break. It’s now 9:30, and I have to be up at 4 a.m, and my reasoning for not completing this assignment is that I keep telling myself “5 more minutes”, fully aware that if I completed this assignment

As a student, I have some habits that I rely on, both good and bad. I am usually a good student, receiving above average grades and I am moderately happy with them. My strength is that I always get everything done on time. I never have an excuse because my work is always done. I pride myself on that fact. And although that may seem like a good quality, the fact that I procrastinate so much does affect how good that work may be. So yes, I always finish my work which is always a good thing, but it may be at the expense of my sleep schedule. I tend to do most of my work the day before, despite telling myself over and over again that it needs to be done earlier. Luckily I have hope for my habits as I am still young. I still have to work on my procrastination but I think that I can improve as long as I start to see the benefits of starting work early. As William James says in his essay Habit, “The period between twenty and thirty is the critical one in the formation of intellectual and