Procastination

Almost all students at any level of schooling, including me, wait until the night before to start our homework or start studying for a test. Just an example, I had a five page paper with a works cited page due Wednesday and I did not start it until 7 pm the night before.  I have a big math test tomorrow and I have not started studying yet.  Life is so much easier if one spreads their homework out over a few days but we just have the natural tendency to be lazy and do it in the last second.  The thing is, procrastination does not work as well in college as it does in high school.  In high school, I rarely studied for tests but when I did, I studied for ten minutes before the class. I am starting to learn that procrastinating is not going to work in college.  If I and everyone in this class wants to be successful and graduate form college, we are going to need to learn to do our homework over an extended period of time; not a couple hours before the class.

Why Judge?

As everyone who goes here knows, we have a very diverse campus.  This diversity is represented culturally but also just in people's personalities or just the way they look or dress.  I am a big offender of judging people just on their appearance.  If I see that someone is not showered and is wearing their pajamas to class, I think less of them for whatever reason.  That is not fair to them and it is really not good for me to think this way.  God told us to respect one another and love everyone as you love yourself.  There really is no point in judging people because no one really gets anything out of it.The other person doesnt hear about it and all it really does for you is show how weak you are as a person and makes you feel bad about yourself.  I am going to make an effort from now on not to judge people without trying to get to know them first.

Wearing a Mask

Some people act differently while they around certain groups of people.  Another phrase for this is wearing a mask.  I just dont understand why people have to act differently just to make people like them.  One should just be happy with who they are.  If someone doesn't like you for who you are, then you dont have to be friends with them.  I know people that are really cool to be around when you are with them by themselves but when a group of people come with us, they will act completely different like they are tyring to impress the group. If people dont like you for the way you are, you dont need them because i am sure that there are plenty of people out there who will like you for who you are.  You were made to be the way you are so there is no way you are going to be able to change that.