Assignment 8 - Gloria Dietz

Fears: Dying without ever having made a difference, the college admissions process (mainly the essays)

Annoyances: Being forced to do things that don’t actually matter in the short-term or long-term

Accomplishments: Being an all A student

Confusion: Sloppy joes (you had the ability to cook something good, but instead chose to cook sloppy joes), Overly religious people (they claim to be have such good character that they have formed a connection with god, but because of that “connection” they think they have they usually aren’t good people and are really pompous and arrogant), religion in general (I’m honestly not sure what to believe and consider myself agnostic), justice and fairness (nothing in life is fair, but we build a lot of our actions upon the idea that if we do good, only good will come to us)

Sorrows: Not having trying as many things as I should have when I was younger.

Dreams: Becoming someone who will actually make a difference I people’s lives

Risks: almost none because I don’t really take many risks

Beloved Possessions: a stuffed cow named Moo-y that I’ve had since I was a baby

Problems: Procrastination

I’ve had a lot of trouble with procrastination during probably my entire academic career.  You’d think that procrastinating badly on every assignment would cause you to fail to complete the assignment every now and then, but I’ve never had procrastinating back fire in that way.  Procrastinating has often made me stressed and has been inconvenient, but I’ve never actually out right failed and didn’t complete an assignment, because of this it has become a pretty bad habit.  In fact, I procrastinated on doing these blogs.  The interesting thing is that I plan to get things done early, but it almost never actually happens unless I know I can’t do it later.  I procrastinate without meaning to; I’ll try to start an assignment early, but then it’s like my subconscious takes over, I get distracted, end up do something else, and ultimately put the work off.  My dad actually suggested a reason for this. He thinks that kids or students that are smarter tend to procrastinate as a way to challenge themselves, because the work isn’t really interesting or challenging enough unless forced to do it in a shorter period of time.  I believe something different. I think that the reason I procrastinate is because I know my limits and how long I take for different tasks and I know that no matter what happens I will get everything done on time, so subconsciously I calculate the least amount of time I need to do a thing plus some margin for error and then just wait till that moment to do whatever task.  This system works, but isn’t the best way to go through life, because it causes a lot of needless stress as well as sleep deprivation. I hope to break the cycle of procrastination before I go to college.