One experience I had with procrastination was during the summer when I was supposed to read To Kill A Mockingbird and answer questions about the book. I found this way too assignment hard and difficult so I kept putting it off until the last week of the summer. By the time it was due I was only a quarter into the project and halfway done with the book. Originally, I was excited to have this assignment. I had thought it would be so easy because I love to read and I thought that answering the questions wouldn’t be too hard. I was even bragging about how I would get the best grade on the assignment. I figured I would love the book and at once understand it.When summer started, I had read the first few chapters of the book. I had gotten an unsettling …show more content…
It wasn’t until the last week of school that I realized that I did barely any work. I immediately freaked out. Sadly though, it was too late. I only got half of the work done. That last week of summer was one of the worst weeks of my life. This was because I realized just how much time I had wasted over the summer. I figured that I could’ve had the work done by now if I just tried a little harder and had stopped putting it off. I tried so hard to get caught up but, I just didn’t have the time to read all forty-something chapters and answer all forty questions. I was so stressed out that last week. I had wrecked my last week of summer just because I wanted to just have fun instead of doing some work every once in a while. When it was due, I was ashamed of how little I got done. Thankfully the teacher had given me a couple of more days. So by the time I had turned it in it was done. Sadly though, due to all the stress I was under due to procrastinating the work in the first place, I had lost half my assignment and made a 40 on the work I did.I had a terrible experience with procrastination which ended with one of the worst grades I've ever
In order to get everything done and turned in on the due dates, I had to manage my time and not
Overall, this article helped me reflect on the novel’s theme and gain understanding of the author’s
It was eleven o’three when I finally started my homework. It was official; I was in the fourth, final, and worst stage of procrastination, the crisis stage. I was exhausted, just trying to finish solving all the problems, and not even checking to see if any of them were right. It seemed no matter how many times I had to suffer the consequences of procrastination, I still chose the easy way, or at least it was easy for a while, until I had virtually no time left and had to rush to get it done.
From the beginning, I maintained a mindset that I would put forward nothing but my utmost best in hopes to achieve the best grade possible, which I surpassed. Most (qualifier) of my assignments were done in advance with the exception of one, that I did the same day but was still turned in on time. I can confidently state that I turned in each assignment on time resulting in zero late penalties to my grade. When the opportunity arose to revise a piece of work with the possibility to receive a higher score, I took the occasion seriously and sought out other opinions to aid in the modification and explore other interpretations. (evidence/data)
It was certainly not confusing. Ms. Voigt wrote in a manner that was thorough and easy to comprehend. Nor was it predictable. At moments, I thought that I knew exactly what was going to occur next, only to find out I was completely wrong. This book never ceased to surprise me.
If I knew that I would be away from home all day at a marching band competition on Saturday, then I would need to schedule time during the week and Sunday to work on projects or studying for tests. I could no longer procrastinate until the last minute, or I would end up getting only one or two hours of sleep. Because of marching band, I changed my habits of procrastination and transformed into a schedule-oriented
9. Style (a) Characterize the author’s diction. (specific word choices- formal or informal; simplistic or learned, emotional or objective, etc.) Most of the language in the book is reasonably informal. The children, during the time of the writing of the book, spoke very informally, especially boys like Huck and Tom who cared little of school.
I procrastinate on nearly everything, every day. I’m not sure exactly when I began to procrastinate so lengthily on everything. It doesn’t seem to matter if I have some sort of motivation or reward at the other end- I can’t seem to bring myself to do things in a timely manner. (In fact, I’m still writing this essay at 1 AM, the morning of the day it’s
The questions in the book also revert back to one common idea and hope to explain the book as a whole and tie into the plot of every single chapter. Most of the chapters were easy to comprehend because of my previous knowledge others were difficult because I took them at face value and did not broaden my horizons and look at the overall picture, instead I looked at one idea instead of several and how do they connect and why?. This book is filled with great information that can enlighten you only if you can stop being closed minded and look at everything as a whole and find the common idea that
People are likely to procrastinate in their daily routine. III.Procrastination is an act of needlessly putting off tasks to the point of experiencing subjective discomfort” (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984, p.503) A. According to Van Eerde, 2003 Procrastination can be defined as a person intentionally delaying completing a task due to people having differing perceptions regarding delaying work. B. The reason procrastinators gave when they are procrastinating is that they have another important tasks to do.
My concept of procrastination was that mine wasn’t all that bad, that I didn’t procrastinate that much. So that meant in my mind that deadlines weren’t that big of a thing to worry about. I would get the work done in time for it even if the work was thrown together last minute. Time also seems to become a less intimidating thing.
This investigation analyses the causes and effects of procrastination and explores a range of measures suitable to cease this destructive habit. The information for this report has been gathered from both printed and electronic sources namely published books, online journal articles, newspaper articles and psychological websites. It was found that procrastination is mainly driven by the fear towards failure and imperfection. Ineffective time spending and poor time allocation is also a root cause of procrastination. Procrastination may deteriorate procrastinator’s health in which procrastinators suffer high stress leading to other chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease (CVD) and hypertension.
People often put off important tasks, whether it’s something easy or challenging, until the last minute. It’s not something to be proud of, but it’s not something that one can easily overcome. As most know, procrastination, according to the online Cambridge Dictionary, is the act of delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring. Although many dawdle due to psychological factors, more people, especially students, now find themselves being drawn to ongoing distractions from advancing technology and easy access to social media platforms that are affecting GPAs, sleep patterns, and general health. Technology was initially developed to help individuals to be more efficient with their tasks.
PROCRASTINATION, a deep and wide disease in a moral nature Procrastination is a thief of precious brilliant ideas and time, an enemy of progress. It is the irrational delay of creativity against your own best interest for a short or extended period, making you more sensitive to pleasure of the moment, and creating great difficulties in concentrating on long-term tasks. The beauty of procrastination is its ubiquity. Everyone procrastinates from time to time, but not everyone is a procrastinator.
Another limitation of this study is that it assumed that procrastination can only be explored in terms of two binaries – active and passive procrastination. However, there is a possibility that active and passive procrastination may occur along a wide spectrum, and a person may have characteristic traits of both active and passive procrastination. Future research should incorporate the possibility of procrastination occurring across a wide