Procrastination - could it actually be a BAD thing?
This is an open letter to the students whom I know that can’t seem to get their sleeping patterns right:
Procrastination. It’s something that almost every teenager learns to do while they are in an educational institution. And I don’t mean procrastination in a light sense; I mean it in the heaviest sense. In the sense that, handing an assignment in to the drop box at university 5 minutes before it’s due is deemed acceptable, as long as it’s handed in. The ends justifies the means… doesn’t it? The educational system teaches that, as long as we hand in our assignments BEFORE a specified date and time, then we are in the free. School is the perfect place to help us teenagers hone our procrastination skills, and in higher education, there is no single better place for us to improve our procrastination skills to the fullest extent. I mean, why should we hand in our assignments a day or two before it’s due, when we live on campus, and thus, we can work on our assignments the night it’s due, walk to the drop box and hand it in before that 8:20 am due date? Pshaw!
Oh, right. Our health. Irregular sleeping patterns! But, that’s all secondary, anyways. Who needs health when we have our youthful youthness? And our caffeinated Tim Horton’s coffee, famed Iced Cappuccino’s, and much beloved Jolt Cola and Bawls? Not us! We’d rather procrastinate our work to as late as possible, and instead, spend our time peeking in every nook and cranny of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in order to find all the easter eggs to fulfill our life’s goal of finally completing that darn game to 100%.
“But wait, I heard that procrastination was bad for you!” Well, Johnny, you must have heard wrong. Because in fact, it stimulates action at the most predictable times - hours, or minutes, before some task is due. Who wants that unpredictability of having work done several days or weeks before it’s due? It’s far better to be able to know that you’ll start on a project a few hours before that dreaded due date instead. It adds that predictability factor to our lives. Plus, we can throw time management out the window, as the only thing we have to keep in mind is the due date, and then we’ll automatically scramble to complete our work once the time has come. So, it all works out in the end, doesn’t it?
The statements made in this blog entry are in no way the views and opinions of Gary King, the author of this blog, and do not represent his way of thinking. You can blame it on the little devil who sits atop his right shoulder instead, since that’s the guy that takes all the blame, anyways.
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My definition of procrastination is late.
If you hand in the assignment 15 min before the deadline then you’re not late. Why would you hand in the assignment a day or two earlier if you think you may be able to make it close to the perfection.
By the way you need to have planning and make sure you’re not sick or any unexpected events otherwise you will miss the deadline completely.
I think if you are late handing in an assignment, then, since you would get 0 for it, it should really be defined as being negligent about your assignment, and that’s even worse than procrastination (and they’re not the same.)
Working on an assignment until 8:20 am is not healthy when you are staying up from midnight to 8 am to work on the assignment (from start to finish.)
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