Procrastination: Just Don’t Do It
At some point in your college career you will do this and you will regret it (and I am not talking about passing out at some random frat house, but I digress…). What I am talking about is procrastination; it is and forever will be every college student’s nemesis.
With each passing school year, you will attempt to be on top of your school work. You will promise yourself that you will be caught up on all of your reading assignments (and not wait until finals week to open up that shiny new $100 textbook for the very first time) and that you won’t wait until the last minute to start writing papers.
But alas, promises were made to be broken. You will inevitably get distracted by parties, video games, late-night slurpee runs and before you know it, you will find yourself doing the unthinkable, procrastinating.
In my experience, college students tend to procrastinate the most when it comes to writing papers. This happens for a multitude of reasons ranging from laziness, poor time management, or even difficulty of the prompt. However, I strongly advise against procrastinating on paper assignments due to these pitfalls:
Pitfall#1: Not giving yourself enough time to write and edit a well thought-out and well argued paper which will consequently result in a poor or, at best, mediocre grade.
Pitfall#2: Writing papers can be stressful enough, but procrastination on said paper will exacerbate the stress.
The moral of the story is: procrastination is like masturbation, because in the end, you are only screwing yourself. So, just don’t do it and muster the will power to prioritize.
