The first appearance of my procrastination was in 7th grade with my history class at the time. I was not fond the teacher in that class, so I would put off the work, and lie about forgetting it at home. With my other classes I was doing the schoolwork, but I just shirked the homework for my history class. The late homework in that class just kept piling up. Eventually, it reached the point where my late work was in, but the newer work was still being put off. As a result, I ended up missing a trip to the University of Washington. I even remember on the last day of school that I lied to my teacher about an assignment I hadn’t done yet falling out of my backpack, only to head home and finish the assignment to show my parents that I had done it.
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She would have us write an essay a week at times, and I would never meet the standards she was looking for. This especially became apparent when at one point, the entire class was required to write 7 essays in a span of 2 weeks, as well as earn a 6 on each one of those essays from the website used to score the papers before turning them in. The highest score I received on those essays was a 5 out of 6 while trying to accomplish my best. I failed to reach the target score, and I never received the feedback I was looking for on why. All I knew was that I had tried my best on those essays, and yet they still weren’t
She would have us write an essay a week at times, and I would never meet the standards she was looking for. This especially became apparent when at one point, the entire class was required to write 7 essays in a span of 2 weeks, as well as earn a 6 on each one of those essays from the website used to score the papers before turning them in. The highest score I received on those essays was a 5 out of 6 while trying to accomplish my best. I failed to reach the target score, and I never received the feedback I was looking for on why. All I knew was that I had tried my best on those essays, and yet they still weren’t