Procrastination

Recently, I was reminded of how to go to governor's school. Ever since the new year began, I have had a hard time readjusting to waking up at 5:30-6:00am every weekday morning. Now, I've gotten used to that, but I've yet to adjust to the late sleeping schedule that the demanding governor's school work causes.

It was Sunday night, a project was due the next day in class, so at about 7pm, I get online to see how the project was going. This was a partner project, so I hoped that my partner had at least done some work. To my dismay, my partner had research the country we were supposed to take over and concluded that it was simply impossible to do so. I was horrified and quickly began searching for a new country. About 2 hours later, the partner suggests another good country that seems much easier to take over. After about another hour of research, we found that it was great for the project, so we began furiously working. I looked at the clock and I had been working for over 2 hours straight and the project was only about half done, so we decided to split the work. I make a powerpoint presentation and my partner continued to work on the paper. Finally, after another pair of hours of work, we finally finish the project. It's rather crude, but it got the job done. I looked at the clock, it was 2:00AM. I was drop dead tired and ready to sleep, but I realized I also have to do work for another class as well, so I quickly found that work and sped through it in about half an hour and went to bed at 2:30am. This, of course, meant that I only got about 3 hours of sleep and had to give the presentation on the energy I had remaining from the 3 hours of sleep that hadn't already been used to wake up and prepare for school. It was a very choppy presentation that both me and my partner were unprepared for, so we could only hope that it would suffice to get us an A or B. We have yet to see our grades.

Governor's School is not for those with health conditions and a lack of work ethic, I believe. I have a heart condition myself, but I've managed to get over that and adjust pretty well. As for the work ethic, as you can see, I've been procrastinating quite a bit, even on this blog. Truly, though, I need to stop procrastinating because I only have a few months and the summer until I begin my final year of high school, where I will have to get my act straight and prepare for college. Wish me luck as I go from point A to point B!

-Sam Rho