English IV (High School Senior English)
October 20
Everyone has said those famous lines at least once, "I'll do it later." But for many, later comes, sneaks up on you from behind and scares the living daylights out of you when you realize the awful truth: 'later' not only came and went faster than you could see it, but it also managed to smack you upside the ead on its way, leaving you with a killer headache and a bad grade. While procrastination is very common among everyone, from grade school students to company CEOs, those most affected by prograstinations trademark wait 'n' bail style are college students. Hours spends on a mid term might leave the student waiting till the last moment to finish an assignment, or days spent studying might leave a college student lacking time to sleep and get to class. Procrastination is a swirling epidemic in college and often goes unnoticed in a land where there are midterms, finals and not enough hours in the day.
When classes meet only three or four times a week, sometimes less, paperes are cast aside with a sticky note and a promise to finish them later. But when it comes time to hand in the assignment, there it sits, forgotten amongst the abandoned sandwich you didn't have time to eat and the science paper you meant to complete two days ago. In the world of business "time is money" but in college "time is rare". With minutes racing past us, it seems its always time to do homework, time to study...but the time just isn't there.
People live lives. People have families, they have responsibilities and they have obligations. While school is important to college students, there are nevertheless other things that rank above, when the red light of an emergancy flashes of one of those higher items, school will always be the one that suffers because classes can be missed and homework can be forgotten, the world will still keep moving for everyone, but when Granny needs to be rushed to the hospital, or Jr doesn't have a sitter for the day, nothing else matters. Ninty percent of my graduating class held part time or full time jobs, of that percentage, eighty percent went on to college. As one of those students, work plays a tremendous part of life. Work puts clothes on backs, books in bags, not to mention pays tuition. If you have to work in order to pay for school, then that's just one more thing above school.
Even if you don't work, you have no other obligations to care for, those students who manage more than my two class regiment are bogged down with an endless array of assignment, projects and papers to complete because its do or die in college. As midterms wind around the bend tension increases, preassure rises and life begins to suck as every waking second because devoted to study, study, study! Even without the mind numbing details of midterms and finals, the day to day efforts of staying sane in an insane world poses on a challege when you forget your calculator at home. So, what's to stop you from not going to the class on test day besides the words, "I'll make it up later", sure later.
As the world turns, these are the grades that determine the rest of our lives, and weather or not we have time to do them depends on each individual person, but just remember one thing, if at first you do't succeed, try try again...later.