Maxwell Ebong
Dr. Kyburz
College Writing 1 @10
22 October 2017
Procrastination
I
admit that I have fallen victim to procrastination multiple times throughout my
life. I believe that I am not the only one, that other also procrastinated
once, twice, or a multitude of times. Why do we procrastinate in the first
place? My senior year of high school my English teacher assigned a huge
research paper that was thirty percent of our grade. Not only me but a majority
of the class would have failed because most of us did not do the research paper
until the night before, we did not even turn in a rough draft. We all got lucky
because our English teacher gave the class another week to do the paper which
was enough time for most of us to fix all the errors within our research
papers. I almost failed English meaning I almost did not graduate simply
because of procrastination.
If
we could begin to think more severely about why we procrastinate we might realize
that doing so could put us in a troublesome predicament that could have easily
been avoided. We might realize that the excuses we say to ourselves such as,
“I’ll do it tomorrow” “That can wait” “This is not due until…” are not
acceptable. Procrastinate is not a good habit to keep because if it becomes
part of our everyday lives then we are just wasting time by not being efficient
as possible. Procrastinate can sometimes cost not only time but money,
additional labor, and even jobs. Keeping all of this in mind it would be in our
best interest if we all decide to stop procrastinating as soon and as much as
possible.
