What role does procrastination play in your life?
If you were a part of Mr. Butler’s sophomore history class, it’s probably hard to imagine anything worse than memorizing flowcharts. But for me, the research papers were far worse. Sure, flowcharts could be tedious and boring, but I never procrastinated on those like I did with my papers. I still remember the panicked feeling I would get every quarter when it set in that I had a paper due the next day and wasn’t even halfway done. Look, I did all I could to get started, but my brain just wouldn’t let me work. I would even set mini-goals for myself a few weeks before our papers were due. “Ok, I'll make an outline today, and then I’ll write one paragraph every day until I’ve filled up five pages (usually ten paragraphs and a couple pictures to fill up the extra space) and then I’ll have a couple days left over to clean it up a bit.” If you haven’t already guessed, that never happened. I would leave it until the last ...