Good Ol' Procrastination

Anita first starts off explaining what procrastination is. A good way to explain this word is looking at this blog. I only had three more blogs to do for Anita's podcast, but I waited the last minute to do them. According to Anita's research procrastination is "extremely prevalent." A high statics for college students was 80-95% of students procrastinate their work. That is a lot of students pushing their work aside. The work that is done the night before is usually poor quality, more errors, less original, and borrowed from other people. Even though Anita makes it seem that procrastination is bad, she highlights what good comes from it. If you gather material for your essay beforehand and have a background knowledge of what your doing. Anita then asked a question, why do people procrastinate? The obvious answer is either the task is too challenging or the dead line is later on in the semester. I have a problem with putting things to the side. In the middle of the semester when a professor hands out an essay that is due at the end. I won't look at it until it's the week of. That is a habit that I and many people suffer from. We are consumed with other work that needs to be handed in before that one specific task. A good way to avoid procrastination is taking little bites from the assignment. Each day do a little bit and eventually the work will get done. The other aspect that I liked was setting goals for yourself. Every time you reach these goals you reward yourself. This podcast was very helpful and I think every college student should listen to this podcast. It doesn't matter how many times  listen to this podcast, procrastination will still be my biggest weakness.