Procrastination Kills by Victoria

Procrastination Kills by Victoria - January 2016 Scholarship Essay

Have you ever stayed up all night before a huge exam studying? Or have you stayed up all night to work on a major essay that could determine you grade in the class? I know that I have, shamefully I’ve done it many times. Thats why my New Years resolution for 2016 regarding school would be to stop procrastinating!

Procrastination is such a terrible habit that I had myself in, I would wait until the last minute to do everything, from lab reports, to term papers, and even final exams; my grades definitely suffered because of this. Not only were my grades suffering but I was getting lazy when it came to school, if it wasn’t due that night or the next day it wasn’t getting done. Of course I blamed it on everything but laziness, the dog needed to go to the park, it was my friends birthday, or my mom needed me to babysit; you name it I did it just to avoid school work. But then I realized it wasn’t just because I didn’t want to do school work.

About two semesters ago I failed two of my classes. Horrible to say the least. I wasn’t giving it my all anymore, and it seemed to get worse as each semester passed by, and I didn’t know how to kick my butt back into the swing of things. I realized that it wasn’t that I minded doing to work or putting in the time to better myself, but it was the material I was studying. I had been pushing myself to become some kind of doctor, so I was sitting through all of these science classes and math classes that didn’t interest me what-so-ever. How do you become a doctor if you aren’t interested in stoichiometry and statistics? I wouldn’t have made it through medical school cramming before tests and not giving it everything I had.

Thats when I decided I would listen to the little voice in my head telling me that I need to do what I love, and that is teaching kindergarten. I love working with kids and I have done it for as long as I can remember, helping them understand the world and how to be apart of it, now that is something I can push myself in. As soon as I made the switch to early childhood education I was hooked, I read ahead in all my classes, I worked on essays for days, and I would study a bit every night. Now I’m not perfect and there is still some procrastination here and there, but thats why it is my New Years resolution.

I believe the key point of this was to learn that life is what you make it out to be, if you go for a career that you won’t enjoy then your not going to be happy getting up and going to work every day no matter what your paycheck looks like. But, if you concentrate on what you love and what drives you out of bed every morning, you won’t regret it a day in your life. So, don’t procrastinate on finding your passion.