Dont Wait

Greetings class of 2025, my message to you all is don’t wait. Procrastination is the action of delaying or postponing something, which I do a lot. Almost every Friday throughout the school year I would say I’d get caught up with my school work this weekend, or I’ll just get some of it done, but did I. Nope. Saturday would come around did I do it then, Nope. but then there is always Sunday, and then Sunday night comes around and did I do it then, no but then there is always study hall Monday morning. I make it so much harder on myself than I have to, half the time the assignment isn’t hard or time consuming I would just rather do anything else than school work. School would have been 10x easier if I did my work on time, maybe I could have been more prepared for college in that sense because once you miss your deadline there isn’t coming back. It’s a lesson to be learned, not one I have already learned, as I finished my speech Tuesday morning, I know it would have been easier if I did my school work throughout the weekend and spaced it out within our three day weekend, but I waited until Monday to start it, its better than not doing it at all.

With all of the additional stress being built on with college approaching made doing my school work even more daunting. Especially when it comes to essay like assignments, because every week I am already writing scholarships, or at least trying. I think a big part of my procrastination is my anxiety, or stress, when I’m stressed out about other things, like college or home life, school work often slips away, I don’t have any motivation to do it, because I use my energy stressing about other things. After I get home from work on the weekdays, I eat dinner and then go to bed, between stress and a long day there is no chance I’m getting my work done, even if I try its going to take so long because my brain is going to be running in snail speed.

What adds fuel to the fire is we have “deadlines” at school, but some teachers choose to follow them and others choose not to, not saying my procrastination comes from the teachers. There isn’t any real consequences for not doing our work on time, there is for English because they can’t grade 100 peoples assignments last week. I’m not sure how Chick has done it pretty much the past four years, somehow getting almost all his work done for the semester within the last two weeks of school, and still has passed all his classes, with no consequence. I have never procrastinated to that level, but its the last week of school and I still have a few assignments to do, we all have procrastinated our work to an extent. We all know the “Ill do it later, or tomorrow,” but usually that later, or “I’ll do it tomorrow” never ends up happening.

“Graduation” by schwglr is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.