“There is no excuse for late work!” This is something my Teacher Mrs. Suarez used to always tell our class. I learned many things in Student Success; our teacher would go over many topics and lessons. Out of all those things that she taught us, there was one thing that I knew very well about and something I wanted to learn more about. The topic that interested me the most was procrastination; the reason being is I am the type of person that procrastinates a lot. I always tend to leave everything to the last minute because I feel that I have enough time to complete that assignment. That is not the outcome many times because at the end I am rushing to get things turned in. In this course Mrs. Suarez told me many ways for me not to end up procrastinating
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For example, I was taking a research class in ninth grade and they gave us two weeks to come up with the paper about anything we wanted that we have researched it could be an animal or a person. When they assigned it I said, “I got two weeks to do it, I can do in the last week”. When that week came I decided that I could actually do it in the last three days and break it down and three parts. In reality I was just postponing it every time that date came that I said I would do it and ended up doing it the night before and I stressed myself out and I stayed up all night to be able to have it done by the next day in the morning. This is a scenario that happened to me, that I realized that procrastination did me no good but just overwhelming on the last day. There was another scenario that happened to me that in the class I had a week to study for that test but yet waited till the last day. In that instant my consequence was failing the test. With these two scenarios, it just shows how procrastination did me no good at the end. Maybe I felt good having a little bit more freedom during the time I could’ve been studying or working on my assignment but at the and it only affected me in a bad way. The stress that I went through would affect me in a long run and comes commonly with procrastination according to Snyder in his book “Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes” and that’s why I reflected to stop. These two issues that happen in my life helped me reflect not to
For example, I was taking a research class in ninth grade and they gave us two weeks to come up with the paper about anything we wanted that we have researched it could be an animal or a person. When they assigned it I said, “I got two weeks to do it, I can do in the last week”. When that week came I decided that I could actually do it in the last three days and break it down and three parts. In reality I was just postponing it every time that date came that I said I would do it and ended up doing it the night before and I stressed myself out and I stayed up all night to be able to have it done by the next day in the morning. This is a scenario that happened to me, that I realized that procrastination did me no good but just overwhelming on the last day. There was another scenario that happened to me that in the class I had a week to study for that test but yet waited till the last day. In that instant my consequence was failing the test. With these two scenarios, it just shows how procrastination did me no good at the end. Maybe I felt good having a little bit more freedom during the time I could’ve been studying or working on my assignment but at the and it only affected me in a bad way. The stress that I went through would affect me in a long run and comes commonly with procrastination according to Snyder in his book “Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes” and that’s why I reflected to stop. These two issues that happen in my life helped me reflect not to