Friday, September 02, 2005

Procrastination: Student's Satan

There is a new villain striking at the hearts of students across the globe. The new epidemic known as PROCRASTINATION is when a person holds off from doing a task, distracted by powerful social forces. While this outbreak is prevalent in students, reports have shown that no one is immuned to it - not even those of high intelligibility.
Extremes of procrastination vary depending on an individual's willpower and motivation. Many cases have been reported, including one involving a University of Western Sydney student who, for confidentiality purposes will be known as X. With an assessment due the next day, X was seen online chatting to a friend rather than completing the task. X had said, "I should be doing readings for my assessment due soon, but meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh." This clearly shows the blatant seriousness of the condition.
Parents are worried that their child will fall victim or that their condition will worsen as the work get more tedious. They fear that their child's academic performance will suffer greatly as a consequence of this. A fear that is not entirely unfounded.
It is suspected that if the educational curriculums do not change to accommodate more enjoyable tasks, then procrastination will continue to spread its evil on future students.
We can only hope it will not go so far...