Procrastination

            Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly look like normal people, yet inside they are procrastinators. Procrastination seems to be widely practiced by our school's students. .
             Before we can address the problem of procrastination, we must first know what procrastination is. Structured procrastination means shaping the structure of the tasks one has to do in a way that exploits this fact. The list of tasks one has in mind will be ordered by importance (Perry, par. 2). .
             Simply put, the order of one's tasks are arranged to please one in that the least favored task becomes the last on the mental or written list. This seems to be the situation with a large percentage of our student population these days. The plain fact of the matter is kids are lazier now than ever, however, I do not feel procrastination is something new to young humans, let alone the students of . .
             One might say people who procrastinate are irresponsible and senseless. On the contrary, it does take a rather large thought process to procrastinate. People who think procrastinators have poor time management skills are wrong. People who procrastinate do indeed have a keen sense of time management, if they didn't they wouldn't be able to apportion time for their tasks in their desired order.
             John Perry makes a good point when he states: Structured procrastination requires a certain amount of self-deception, since one is in effect constantly perpetrating a pyramid scheme on oneself (Perry).
             This is a whole new light on the broadness of the procrastinator's mental capacities. Administrators who argue for a well rounded student certainly got what they asked for. Students can now apportion their academic schedules to how they see fit based on enthusiasm for each item while still having the ability to deceive themselves into thinking their schedule of events is logical.