Procrastination is a talent which many high school students are now very well versed in. Waiting till the last minute to start a project, doing homework the block before it’s due and cramming last minute for tests instead of studying are part of daily life for most high school students.

I am severely guilty of procrastination. I’ll have something due soon, or at least know the deadline, and continuously put it off. I’ll just keep telling myself, “it can wait till tomorrow,” or “I’ll have time to do it in class tomorrow,” but these are lies. There will be the occasion where it’s not as important as something else I have to do and it could be put off, but when that happens I’ll do this less important thing and put  off the daunting task.

Even with this problem I manage to do well in my classes. The devastating outcome of this method is the stress. I am pretty much a walking stress bomb about to explode. Of course this is all my own doing, which causes me to be quite upset with myself.

I keeping saying to myself, “This has to stop. You need to stop doing this. Stop putting things off and find an effective way to prioritize what needs to be done.” I see the logic behind what I’m telling myself and agree wholeheartedly.

I plan to make a change, it’s the reasonable thing to do, it would make my life much easier and alleviate a lot of stress. Unfortunately, I’m putting this off as well. Hopefully the second semester will break this awful pattern.