Why is it every time an assignment is due, people do something else? I had five papers due once back from Thanksgiving break and instead, I rearranged my living room, organized my closet, de-cluttered my room, decorated the walls with vinyl stickers (thank you Amazon), and now I’m writing this blog post. How can it be that when the pressure to finish an assignment before the due date makes some want to put it off even more and do other things? It sometimes feels like if one writes something else, like a blog post, it will put one in the mood to write for real. That if I can get this done, I will be able to check something else off my list and feel progress. Maybe it is the progress we need as students to feel like we have accomplished something. Ever notice the discussions in the caf about how much people got done in a certain period of time? “I read the novel for English, wrote my American Government paper, submitted the blackboard discussion, emailed my professor that pending question, and I worked out.” It seems to be the little things, the small goals and simple assignments is what constitutes progress for the college student. When the assignments get too big and the deadline nears, the small bits of progress snowball into the fifteen page research papers and final drafts of essay. Then the semester is over and it’s back to Netflix and sleeping in.
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