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"Eh, I'll do it later"

Remember when you were in school and your teachers gave you all this homework, and then you put it off until the last minute? You're procrastinating. Procrastination is very, very common. There is no one in this world that has not procrastinated at least once in their life.

In Amy Swanson's article, "The real reasons why you procrastinate -- and how to stop", she explains the theories of Tim Urban's Ted Talk. The article explains why we procrastinate, and frequently refers back to Urban.

As a matter of fact, while I was reading the article myself, I went off topic and procrastinated from reading the rest of it. At the beginning of the article, Swanson refers to the Chernobyl accident, and I have always wanted to know more about it. I copied and pasted the word Chernobyl into a Google search and spent the rest of my class (about half an hour) reading articles about the Chernobyl incident. I still haven't finished reading the rest of Swanson's article. The same article I am supposed to be writing about right now.

Moving on to Tim Urban's Ted Talk

While we were watching it during class, my friend and I kept finding ourselves relating to and laughing about his talk. Because we are only in the tenth grade and very lazy, we also find ourselves procrastinating on 99% of all our assignments. We frequently put everything to the side until the day before it's due. This is a problem because we're always exhausted. I always find myself practically failing the class until three days before grades are due. You would think that with all the AP and Honors classes we would be more responsible, but no we are huge procrastinators and throughout the year are failing most of our classes.
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