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The Importance Of Homework On Your Own Words

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Describe your stressful circumstance in your own words.
During the school year, homework tends to consume my life. Though the intention of homework is to help me learn, I’m eager to learn in different ways. I really want to have the time to participate in extracurricular activities, especially those related to the careers I’m interested in. I feel like these would provide me with a sense of what I’d like to major in. The conflict is my schedule. I’m still quite busy with homework and will be adding a job to the mix, so I’m not sure where I can fit this in.
Describe how your stressful circumstance could be worse than it is.
If I got a lot more homework than was listed in the syllabus of each course, than I think it would add to the …show more content…

In addition, my teachers could decide to give us last minute parameters on an assignment that I have already completed, forcing me to redo the assignment. If more homework were added, I’d likely get fall short on sleep. For my work, my employers would just need to decide that they need me on more shifts than I listed myself available.

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I estimate that this story is _____% likely to come true.

Write a realistic story about how the better version you identified in step 3 might actually take place. What would have to change in you and the others involved to make things even better? Once you have written your story, estimate (from 0% to 100%) how likely it is to come true.
To finish my assignments in a more reasonable amount of time, I’d need to stop being so much of a perfectionist and to stop worrying so much how tough of a grader my teachers are going to be. I would also need to quit looking up random videos when I’m supposed to be doing my homework. It’s not necessarily a must, but my teachers could decide that they don’t want to grade the assignments they’ve assigned. For my job, my employer would stick to the schedule that I requested, allowing me also on occasion to pick up an extra shift if I need.

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I estimate that this story is _____% likely to come true.

What specifically can you do to bring about the better version of your problem and stop the worse version from happening?
To bring about

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