Metacognition: Procrastination

I react the same way every time I find out I have a project or an essay due. "This is going to take forever....." also known as Stage 1. When I'm home and actually look at what I have to do for the assignment I realize it is not as hard as I think. I understand that it is simple in some ways, but overall will take sometime to complete. Time I would have to take away from TV, friends, and other fun activities. Time I begin to realize I would not want to give up for more homework. Thus begins Stage 2.

Stage 2 is procrastination. Every teenagers best friend who always stabs them in the back by the end and yet we continue to be friends with them like it was an honest mistake. Procrastination is the worst thing that could happen when doing a long term assignment. Avoiding to do a project can cause a lower effort when doing the project which means a lower grade which leads to patterns of procrastination. I cannot help, but procrastinate. There is always something more fun to do that an essay about a book I'll have to half make up, because I procrastinated reading it. 

Finally, Stage 3 of my journey is doing the assignment the weekend or night before. After procrastinating for so long that I finally have no choice, but to do the assignment. By the end of me completing the assignment it looks rushed and unorganized I feel the need to reread it to make sure its okay before turning it in. Suddenly my good old buddy procrastination stops by for one last visit. It says "Hey Andrew, you seem tired. You could use a rest. How about you lie down for a little bit in your bed? No worries I'll you up earlier than usual so you can read it over." Which never happens.

To some up procrastination is bad and the only reason me or anyone in the history of the world will ever to bad on an essay or project is because of procrastination.

Blogging Around

Carry It Forward: The Last American Man

By Eva Tumanova

In her blog she was talking about a book she had found that was about a man who ran away from home to live in the woods and how in the woods he had to make his own choices in order to survive. After his time in nature he came back to try and spread his way of seeing the world through transcendentalism, but people found it odd.

This was a really great blog entry. I enjoyed it the most at the end. That you were choosing to follow a dream and not go to college to become something that you are not. I admire that about you. Unfortunately I am not as into transcendentalism as you are so this book would only make me think this man is crazy for leaving society, but I understand that sometimes when you have strict parents it can seem like you cannot do anything no matter what you try. When the protagonist ran into the woods, it seemed almost like a coward thing to do in my opinion. As if he was running from his problems.

Connection: Art and Creativity

By Anne Edwards

In Anne's blog, she talked about how creativity affects art and how art cannot be made without creativity.

Anne, I cannot tell you how much this speaks to me. Ever since I was little I was extremely interested in drawing. Although, I was not very good at drawing especially three-dimensional drawings. So a lot of the time I'll have a creative idea, but I cannot execute the idea without butchering the drawing. Once every blue moon, I will have a decent drawing and will be proud of it and start to try more difficult drawings, but again my art ability is not good enough for my creativity, but when i think about it I'd rather be creative and not artistic than artistic and not creative.