Hello and welcome to the infamous Sunday Night Homework Fight! I am your honored host, Mike Kubik. The time is 9:43pm. Tonight we will discuss the ever-present, ever-looming, ever-blooming P-word. Yes, everyone, I do mean procrastination.
We all know the feeling; don’t be afraid to admit it: hanging out with friends or aimlessly browsing Facebook when suddenly a terrifying thought creeps into your mind–“MY PROJECT IS DUE IN 10 HOURS!”
Now comes the hurried wrestling through papers and files and Facebook and research and bibliographies and Facebook and…wait…Facebook?? Why do I have three new statuses but no new paragraphs?!
Weekend after weekend, this vicious cycle repeats, and I believe I speak for more than just myself in saying that third quarter brings the worst procrastination. With so many projects, how can it not? Massive Myth & Legends projects, every conceivable form of English papers, on-going AP Spanish projects, the list carries on. Does some kind of teacher meeting happen where they all decide to set due dates for the same week? Mostly the same day? I think so. It just would not make sense otherwise.
Ominous, right? Never fear, procrastination is here! With every new project or paper or assignment it seems that the inexorable urge to put things off grows even stronger. We even use previous projects to put off future projects. Everything works though because the “MY PROJECT IS DUE IN 10 HOURS!” adrenaline rush helps us finish up earlier. All of that added stress just makes us efficient; it gives us an edge. We all know that our best work happens at 5 in the morning. Procrastination is the answer!
Oh wait, no it isn’t…
It seems as though for every Facebook status, we drop a letter grade. For every TV show watched, we drop a letter grade. Every phone call made and every text message sent, we drop a letter grade. So, Prairie Ridge, the answer is pretty clear, and procrastination is not it. If we could stand to give up just a few of those precious 50+ hours of social media per week, maybe we could get rid of all of that pre-due date stress. I know, I know, I am asking a lot. Remember everyone; your friends will be there in the morning, the new profile pictures can wait.
Hmmm….Looks like there’s only about six hours left until school starts. I guess it’s about time this article comes to a close. And oh, one last note: this article was due last week!