Procrastination

Story by Bree Moore ≫

Are you excited that school is back into full swing with loads of homework? Most students could agree that we don’t want to spend our free time doing homework. All we want to do is sleep, play on our phones, or watch t.v. This leads to the activity we all love the most – procrastination.

Andrew Harmon, Sr., usually never starts his homework right when he gets home. Typically, Harmon usually winds down, figures out what plans he needs to know for future events, and watch some shows on Netflix. He usually starts his homework later at night.

“I think I work best under pressure,” Harmon said, “so if I know I have a lot of time to get homework done, I’ll just let it sit for awhile because I won’t have the motivation to do it until I know I need to do it right then.”

In the night, Harmon gets distracted by watching his weekly shows, or learning new tunes on the piano, both of which lead to him staying up until 1 a.m.  In the long run, this affects Harmon’s day, making him tired, but still with enough energy to get him through the day. Harmon, on a scale of one to ten, would rate his procrastination level a six or a seven.

Junior Elyjah Helm is the type of person who will start his homework right when he gets home. However, he still stays up until 8 or 9 p.m. if he has an overload of work. Helm is not an everyday procrastinator, he’s not the type of person to scram around last-minute to finish everything and raise his stress level. The things that take his mind away from homework are family and food.

“My family is always distracting me while I do my homework,” Helm said, “Which is why I moved to my room to do homework, but when they say dinner is ready, I eat instead of doing homework because it’s so tempting.” On a normal day, Helm would rate his procrastination level a four.

Typically, it’s the housework and personal tasks that will push his procrastination to a higher level

Lauren Mitchell, Frosh., does not usually start her homework right off the bat. Mitchell is the type of person who gets distracted easily, which is why she ends up starting her homework at seven p.m., which to her, feels like a really late time to start homework. Netflix also pulls Mitchell off track. She feels that it is incredibly tempting to just watch it when you’re sitting in bed.

“It sucks because sometimes I have my assignments done on time, and other times I don’t because homework is the biggest cause of my stress. I don’t want to do an hour worth of math if I already had a 50 minute period on the same stuff at school,” said Mitchell.

Procrastination is something that just triggers your brain to switch and has you do something you want to do instead of doing something you should be doing. Mitchell places her procrastination level at a six out of ten. She describes it as a fifty-fifty situation that leans more one way or the other.