On Sunday Homework

This counts.

In some way, I find that on Saturday I'm deciding I shall sap every ounce of fun from the following day. Is it really so simple as an advancement of my natural masochistic tendencies? Could there be any other meaning beyond the obvious claims of procrastination. Do you think for one moment that in the grand scheme of whatever things, procrastination is really a wide-spread issuance; that every student's bane is some simple noun that is applicable in all cases whatsoever.

Rhetoricals - Lots of 'um.

Still, they do lead me to an interesting point. We fight so hard to disallow absolutes in our explanations, and yet it seems so natural to blame a student's laziness or lack of time management skills on an ever increasing pile of procrastinated submarine (except for the topmost) pieces of paper. Lets read between the lines/or just think beyond our own self-interested wrinkly oranges (metaphor for brains).

If it is not laziness that leads to the 'Sunday Rush' (TM) then what is it. Think about it. The entire school week has no issues with procrastination - assuming the assignment is due the following day. Week long assignments (those due on a more than one day basis) tend to be staved off in just the same way as weekend assignments. The conclusion? Either students are in fact lazy (all in exactly the same way) or (bear with me)they lack motivation to complete the assignments given for a lack of secondary reasoning.

If the only existing motivation is an atavistic A+, there is a stunning disconnect between social standards and education. Once the student realizes that a simple 90% is an easy result with minimal effort, or an 80% with the absolute lowest exertion, there is absolutely no reason to put a week's worth of effort into the procrastinated homework. Both pre-listed results are perfectly fine. In our school though, they demonstrate nothing but osmotic retention of knowledge. I certainly hope that my next surgeon remembers 80% of the procedure right?

Wait. That's a dumb metaphor for putting in effort. I forgot my own opinion for a moment...

Anyone who attempts such a linkage is stuck up and downright wrong.

High school is not about preparing for a future career. It is some strange mesh of irreverence and illegitimacy. In all these subjects that are useless or wasted or shared among those who don't care, we might as well be loaded down pregnant with excess facts and a resounding waste of time. The extra pre-emptive effort then? Hell no.

I'll continue putting everything off and just slinking by - thanks. All the time I'm supposedly procrastinating... That's when the real learning happens: programming, engineering, languages (outside of the pitiful 3 available at our school) - all that would have been impossible without 'procrastination.'

So yeah. I'll keep slacking off.