{"id":13796,"date":"2015-01-26T16:42:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T22:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=13796"},"modified":"2015-02-10T17:03:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T23:03:18","slug":"procrastination-at-imsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2015\/01\/26\/procrastination-at-imsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Procrastination at IMSA"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s 12 AM, and you\u2019re just starting your long-dreaded math homework. Facebook, the first stage of procrastination, is ever-so-tempting because you’re attempting to ignore the impending responsibility. And now you\u2019re thinking that maybe, just maybe, you should\u2019ve started this homework hours ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

And\u00a0then the cycle repeats the next day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Procrastination seems to be a really big problem here at IMSA. I sometimes even find myself waiting until the 10 minutes before class starts to complete an assignment. The fact that this happens more often than it should makes me wonder whether I enjoy feeling rushed and panicked to finish something before it\u2019s due, or if the atmosphere here makes me truly believe that waiting until the last minute is completely okay and actually shows how efficient you can be. <\/span><\/p>\n

If you think about it, it\u2019s really easy to procrastinate here at IMSA, because everyone does it. You hear things like, \u201cLet\u2019s go play League, we can start our homework right after,” or \u201cIt\u2019ll just take half an hour, then you can do your homework.” But half an hour turns into an hour, then into 2, then into 5, and soon you realize that it\u2019s past midnight, and your homework will take you more than just an hour to complete. Living around such a diverse group of people makes it hard to focus on what you, yourself, need to get done, because everyone is doing different things at different times. There are those people who get their homework done before dinner and are free to hang out the rest of the day, those people who start their homework at 7pm and finish before 11pm, and then those people who don\u2019t even start their homework until 1am. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u00a0isn\u2019t even as though all of your friends all do the same thing and start their homework at the same time, so sometimes choosing who you want to hang out with is part of deciding when you want to start your homework. <\/span><\/p>\n

And, being that friends and homework are both important aspects of IMSA as a whole, having to make that decision is unfair. <\/span><\/p>\n

My point is that procrastination here is either a really big problem that spreads like the flu, or it\u2019s just something that\u2019s part of life at IMSA because of the busy and clustered atmosphere. Living and studying at a residential school, it\u2019s often hard to just sit down and concentrate. I used to think that procrastination was when you put something that needs to get done off to the side for later, but at IMSA it seems to just be the process of actually getting work done. Everyone brushes their teeth, right? So by the same reasoning, almost everyone procrastinates, and it\u2019s just a part of life at IMSA now.<\/span><\/p>\n

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