Procrastinating In High School

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

Over the summer break, my mom had accidentally thrown out my summer homework that I had labored for days over. Despite the fact that I was fuming with anger, I asked myself, “If I don’t redo the packet by tonight, will I be satisfied?” My answer was no. I stayed up until two in the morning redoing the packet, but it was worth it. No matter how miserable I was that night, it was exponentially better than the feeling of anxiety that would loom over my head during my last few days of summer vacation. Knowing myself, I would have constantly thought about it as the impending due date neared if it wasn’t finished yet.

Sometimes when you put off doing something you get hurt. I learned this while doing a project in my eighth grade English class. We were assigned a Public Service Announcement project during the last weeks of school. Everyone was required to choose from a list of topics for their public service announcement. Our topic was on what people can do to save the environment. We made the project with a mixture of photos from the internet and photos we personally captured. Then, we added music and the project would be complete once we recorded. Two-thirds of the way done with our project, my group decided to slow down our pace. We stopped the project altogether and we remembered the assignment once our teacher reminded us. She told us that it was scheduled

Not every freshman knows that high school is not a joke and there is some things you will need to know to make it to graduation. Freshmans are the new students that come from middle school to highschool for their ninth grade year. Most people say that it is okay for anyone to mess up in their first year of high school, but it will bring you far behind and harder on you. Slacking could be the worst thing you do in school, but mostly high school because that is when everything gets serious. The following paragraphs will demonstrate that in order to keep acceptable grades freshman's should always get their classwork and homework done and turned in on time and never slack on anything that they are assigned.

Attention Getter: So I’m pretty sure everyone here has had an important assignment to complete before like a project or essay. And most of us usually plan it out where we do a portion of it every day. For example, something like this chart here. But then the next thing you know, the deadline is fast approaching and you still haven’t come close to completing your assignment. And we end up somewhere like this. Well, I believe that we can all relate to this and we have all done this to ourselves before. I’m talking about procrastination.

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” (Abraham Lincoln) This quote is something many people tend to ignore when they come face to face with something as major as a significant event that causes a life change or even something as simple as a class assignment. This phenomenon is called procrastination. Every human has at least done it once in their life and has suffered from the consequences due to the act of procrastinating. Once somebody has felt the impact that procrastination brings, then they are stuck stressing out over a problem that could’ve been easily avoided a significant amount of time ago. The stress the person has to go through when they realized they messed up in a major way, the amount of regret from procrastinating in the first place, all of these feelings are enough to push a person in the right direction

Did you know that our bodies want to make babies? Did you also know that our bodies are actually really good at it?, the answer is that yes our bodies want to make babies and yes we are good at it, we are so good at it that about 365,000 new babies are produced everyday, thats a lot isn’t it!, however creating a new human being is not easy, it is actually a process that takes time.Think about it you have to build a brand new body with one hundred trillion cells, thats a lot!.But how do you do this?

Thesis Statement: Today, I will tell you about what exactly procrastination is, the causes, and the effects.

I am a lazy person no matter what the topic at hand is. When I go to school, I think of how I’m going to be able to do the bare minimum for each of my classes. Many students hear the word procrastination but I can say truthfully that I’m the living proof of the word. Do not get me wrong, as I take many difficult classes. The problem was how I accomplished each task. I would always leave them for day before it was due. This holds true even for this class. I am not going to lie, but I wrote this paper the day before it was due. Now to talk about writing for me was never a leisure activity. I hated to write essays because I was never good at it. I feel like that is quite selfish of me to not complete a task based on difficulty. Almost like not

It is day one of finals at my school. I was already mentally drained and exhausted by the end of the day. Procrastination struck as it hit my thought process while

“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.

Well for starters throughout all of high school I have procrastinated and put everything off till last minute and sometimes not even do it. I would sit there knowing I have some huge project that needs done the next day and instead of doing it I would think of some way to try to get out of it or distract myself. I would distract myself by playing video games, go on a walk, sometimes just take a nap, or by talking to a friend

The opposite of what I was meant to do is what we call procrastination. According to the dictionary, it is pronounce as [proh-kras-tuh-ney-shuhn], it is a noun which means -the act or habit of procrastinating, putting off or delaying, especially something requiring immediate attention. They also gave an example, “She was smart, but her constant procrastination led her to be late with almost every assignment.” Haha, funny that, I have heard that said about me once or twice, ok let’s face it, all my teachers have said that. I ended up reading about procrastination in the web and turns out it wasn’t so bad. I learnt few hints on how to draw a stick figure. I even managed to find my mangled mini miniature monkey set and oh that hundred bucks I was looking for last fall. Hah... imagine that, I was rich in a day. All of that work waiting and all that work I have done has drained my energy. Suddenly I felt like my eye lids are heavy, I feel like having a nana nap. Nudge, nudge, I felt my

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:

As many students in college know, high school is not a place where you really had to study. When I got to college things changed drastically, I had fallen behind because I did not know how to study and never really had too. High schools could do a much better job at preparing study habits for college. First by giving us time in class to study. Next by giving quizzes randomly on what we were supposed to be studying in class. And last teachers giving us a spreadsheet on what and when to study each week.