Four Whole Years by Payton

Four Whole Years by Payton - December 2017 Scholarship Essay

The ultimate strategy on a school project is to not procrastinate. I know it is incredibly difficult, trust me. However, as each year passes I procrastinate less on the things that matter the most. Freshman year, life was easy. Anyone could forget to do their homework and cram it in before class started. Sophomore year depended on the class. Some kids could hold studying off until a quick glance at their review guide before bed. Moreover, in chemistry you read each and every word on that review packet, probably right before you went to bed too. Junior year is the year you should start to understand procrastination is not going to get you a good score on the SAT. So spend the extra 25 minutes editing your paper so you do not get points deducted. You can not afford that anymore. Senior year. There is simply no time to procrastinate.
Procrastination is our worst enemy. We all know we need to start our AP Bio research paper so we do not feel the overload of stress two days before it is due. However, your favorite TV show has their mid season finale tonight that you can just not miss. Freshman year, kids say I will just do it after. Senior year, adults say I will work on it during the commercials.
This is how someone manages difficult school projects. It took me four whole years to learn that procrastination is not going to help anything, it simply will only make things worse. Put the phone down and read the chapter that was assigned. Turn the TV off and annotate the paragraph. Put the game away and finish all of the homework problems. Make sure you do it now, before it is four whole years later and you never finished the school project that costed the good grade.