Saturday, October 11, 2014

Procrastination Woes

This week started off kind of badly. I spent last weekend watching conference and spending time with my family rather than doing homework. While I don't regret that decision, it left me with four homework assignments incomplete at the end of the weekend. I had to wake up at 4 in the morning on Monday in order to finish them. I was barely able to finish these assignments. As the day progressed, two of the four homework assignments had their due dates pushed back. A professor decided that one of the other two assignments I had would not even be graded.
Some might say "Well good for you, they are already done and you don't need to worry about them anymore." While that is true, it led to me being very frustrated and annoyed at the start of a very demanding week. I have had a shorter temper and not acted as I wished that I would have. Why? Because I started off the week being so frustrated that I had needlessly woken up at 4 in the morning to do homework. Now, this may seem insignificant, and in the big picture it really is. For some reason, though, it just pricked me wrong the whole week.
What have I learned? I cannot control my professors' decisions about deadlines or what they will choose to grade, so instead I must keep myself from having to wake up at 4am to do homework. I need to stop procrastinating homework, and if I am going to take the weekend off I need to put effort in before that to finish my homework. By doing this I will be able to do the things I want to do without stressing about homework or becoming frustrated when deadlines are changed.

1 comment:

  1. True story. happens alot. but then I realize that I was being angry for not being able to procrastinate a little more haha. things always work out in the end for the best!

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