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Essay about Reducing Procrastination by High School Students

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As I sit at my desk attempting to start this very paper, I hit a wall; I have no idea what I want to write about. It’s not that I can’t think of a reason although that is what I tell myself. I haven’t even tried to, so I just sit here staring at my blank screen. “Well, maybe I can do it over the weekend I have Sunday free, yes, that will work out perfectly,” I think to myself. “What harm could it do, after all it’s just one day, not that big of a deal.” Then I thought back to not even two weeks prior, I had a lab report due in chemistry; I had been sitting at home on a Sunday night and had every intention of doing my report but then, as soon as I got my computer out, I lost all motivation to type it. Before, writing my lab-report had …show more content…

I was relieved, but that feeling was short lived. When I walked through the door my heart sank. In all my rushing around to finish my graphs I had forgotten all about the calculations and therefore the results. I turned in the report solemnly knowing full well that I would fail. As I walked back to my seat I thought maybe I should have started earlier. In high schools all over the world students do the same thing I just did with my lab report. We needlessly put off our work and in the end take a hit on quality because of it. Procrastination is an epidemic of monstrous proportions. We have not seen a disease this wide spread in history. Procrastination is everywhere and is becoming a larger problem everyday it is allowed to continue. I have developed a plan, so that together we can stop this emerging pandemic. To fully understand procrastination we must look back into its origins. A common misconception about procrastination is that it started with the use of technology; this is simply a wrongful distortion. Procrastination has been around for centuries, according to Eric Jaffe a published author stated, “People have struggled with habitual hesitation going back to ancient civilizations. The Greek poet Hesiod, writing around 800 B.C., cautioned not to put off work till tomorrow and the day after” (Jaffe, 2013.) We cannot use technology as a scapegoat in an attempt to avoid the real problem. An iPhone is a distraction not the problem. As I stated

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