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Anyone else here slowly screwing up their life by being lazy and a procrastinator?
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kranky
Elite Member
I really believe that coasting through HS makes it more likely that someone will struggle in college. They don't develop good work habits and time management skills.
After being National Honor Society in HS with a 3.6 average, I nearly flunked out my second semester in college. I was skilled at lying and cheating my way through so I patted myself on the back for being clever enough to get by without doing the work. Luckily for me, there were a couple administrators who knew me through my work-study job (I never slacked at work, for some reason) and they helped me get back on track. I gave up the lying and cheating and disciplined myself to do the work. To my amazement, it wasn't any harder to do the work honestly than it was to try to keep all my lies straight. The other big problem I had was that there was always someone who had nothing to do and was looking to do it with - and I was always ready to help waste their time. I didn't realize that the vast majority of those people were doing their work at other times - I didn't think anyone did any work!
Don't try to turn your whole life around overnight - it's too big a task and you'll easily slip back into your old bad habits. Take one step at a time. You will never change just by telling yourself that you want to - you have to want to! It's not hard, but that first step is the worst.
Look at your situation objectively and see how you are undermining your success - too much partying? Drugs? Drinking? Just wasting your time doing nothing because you can't bring yourself to do the work you know you need to do?
Start separating yourself from the people and places that are causing you to fail. If you spend too much time on the computer, go somewhere where you don't have access to one to do your work.
You can do this - you already know you need to change, so avoid the things that are helping you to fail.
Best of luck to you! College can still be fun even if you have to do a lot of work, believe me. It's not an either/or.
After being National Honor Society in HS with a 3.6 average, I nearly flunked out my second semester in college. I was skilled at lying and cheating my way through so I patted myself on the back for being clever enough to get by without doing the work. Luckily for me, there were a couple administrators who knew me through my work-study job (I never slacked at work, for some reason) and they helped me get back on track. I gave up the lying and cheating and disciplined myself to do the work. To my amazement, it wasn't any harder to do the work honestly than it was to try to keep all my lies straight. The other big problem I had was that there was always someone who had nothing to do and was looking to do it with - and I was always ready to help waste their time. I didn't realize that the vast majority of those people were doing their work at other times - I didn't think anyone did any work!
Don't try to turn your whole life around overnight - it's too big a task and you'll easily slip back into your old bad habits. Take one step at a time. You will never change just by telling yourself that you want to - you have to want to! It's not hard, but that first step is the worst.
Look at your situation objectively and see how you are undermining your success - too much partying? Drugs? Drinking? Just wasting your time doing nothing because you can't bring yourself to do the work you know you need to do?
Start separating yourself from the people and places that are causing you to fail. If you spend too much time on the computer, go somewhere where you don't have access to one to do your work.
You can do this - you already know you need to change, so avoid the things that are helping you to fail.
Best of luck to you! College can still be fun even if you have to do a lot of work, believe me. It's not an either/or.
StageLeft
No Lifer
I was heading that way. Each person has a different point at which they decide to stop dicking around. Mine wasn't so much a one-time revelation, but rather a few key moments in my life in which I realized that maybe I should stop being a lazy ass. Also just with age I think I appreciate the benefits of work more, so I don't really consider myself a procrastinator too badly anymore. I'm still lazy depending on what the thing is, but for a lot of things I just don't procrastinate at all, such as paying bills. I've never paid one late and don't ever intend to. And even for things at work i can kind of get started a bit before the last minute 🙂
I dropped out of high school during my OAC diploma year (grade 13 of high school in Ontario up until recently)
Grade 13 is used for university (universities give degrees)
Grade 12 is if you want to go to college (colleges give diplomas)
I went to college, graduated recently with a perfect cumulative 4.0 GPA and I still can't get into university because I didn't finish high school properly (yeah go figure they wont acknowledge my college accomplishment and still want high school). I can't go back because they've since removed grade 13 and packed it into a new curriculum which I wouldn't be able to take anyhow because I don't have prerequisites and I would definitely not go back to high school at age 22 after doing college ad nauseam.
I can't get a degree cause I was lazy and got high all and drunk all senior year. I can't get a job because most jobs (that I'd like) won't take anything short of a degree.
Don't be like me kids 😉
Grade 13 is used for university (universities give degrees)
Grade 12 is if you want to go to college (colleges give diplomas)
I went to college, graduated recently with a perfect cumulative 4.0 GPA and I still can't get into university because I didn't finish high school properly (yeah go figure they wont acknowledge my college accomplishment and still want high school). I can't go back because they've since removed grade 13 and packed it into a new curriculum which I wouldn't be able to take anyhow because I don't have prerequisites and I would definitely not go back to high school at age 22 after doing college ad nauseam.
I can't get a degree cause I was lazy and got high all and drunk all senior year. I can't get a job because most jobs (that I'd like) won't take anything short of a degree.
Don't be like me kids 😉
Take a tour of a local manufacturing plant. We took a few class outings during college, and when I saw guys my age & younger covered head to toe in sawdust, and paint, or breathing lead fumes in the smelter -- I knew right then and there I needed to finish that engineering degree. I didn't want to be coming back to apply for one of those jobs, and end up becoming some else's motivation!
xXped0thugXx
Golden Member
wow i thought i was one of the only ones, i suck at life and at school.
Supermercado
Diamond Member
I was headed down the same track two years ago. Had my GPA down to 2.5 after two dismal semesters of basically nothing but Cs (granted, they were hard classes and I shouldn't have scheduled it the way I did, but that's another story). Decided that I was going to turn it around and in my junior year, I had two 3.3-ish semesters. Last semester, I had a 3.81 and this semester I had a 3.78, graduating with a cumulative of 3.06. Not great, but it's a lot better than it was. I don't know that my problem was so much laziness as it was lack of discipline. I'd do my work but it was only with partial effort because I'd spend too much time playing Counter-Strike. The best thing that ever happened to my college career was my CS clan breaking up at the end of my sophomore year. After that, I started making pretty much all As and Bs and I think I only had two Cs in my last four semesters. Like was said above, that magical third year switch got flipped and I got it turned around. Looking back on it, I hate to think of how much better I could have done and would have done if I could go back and do it with what I know now. Oh, well, though. Live and learn.
konakona
Diamond Member
Here is procrastination for ya
I second that SuperCommando, being hooked to games is about the worst way to ruin your college life... basically i am on the boat except i got some GOOD reasons to get me motivated which makes me confident i will be fine at least for this semester. seems like everyone does well in high school but college is no joke - some people just have to learn it the hard way. I know it sounds like a cliche, but just remember IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE. assuming you will be turning sophomore soon, there must be plenty of time to work on your GPA.
I second that SuperCommando, being hooked to games is about the worst way to ruin your college life... basically i am on the boat except i got some GOOD reasons to get me motivated which makes me confident i will be fine at least for this semester. seems like everyone does well in high school but college is no joke - some people just have to learn it the hard way. I know it sounds like a cliche, but just remember IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE. assuming you will be turning sophomore soon, there must be plenty of time to work on your GPA.
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