After reading  the text “later” I came to  realization that I procrastinate myself and I never get work done because I’m always  distracted by my phone or doing something that is not pertained to what I’m supposed to be doing. In the story the main character seems to suffer with procrastination a lot because whatever he has to do seems boring and doesn’t peak his interest, I can relate to that as well. Like his work reading this text was boring and uninteresting  and I caught myself procrastinating to read the rest of the text because of how bland it was like the author. Around the 9th page of the text is when it got monotonous. It spoke about things I couldn’t grasp or understand and the material was foreign to me.  When we come to the facts and figures section, it starts to be a little more intriguing since information that is interesting to know, like the fact Americans submit their taxes late due to procrastination as stated on page 4. The author makes a comparison. An actual experiment to see how participants would respond to receiving money quickly at first versus more slowly. This shows the character. Procrastinators, according to the author, are aware of the difficulties at hand. Even mentions how a writer he knew who was supposed to share his article with him by the time he returned from lunch never did. It was eventually received, though, at a later date. Procrastination is a problem that affects as all and we are all guilty of it. It only gets worse you don’t act upon it and take action to decrease it. Also the vocabulary in the text was complex as well.  “It requires the lever of Archimedes to move this  inert mass” This was very confusing and I didn’t understand it very well.
Author: Jay (Page 6 of 7)
I submitted my assignment through email. If you did not receive it I can show you tomorrow on  9/14 in person.
In quarantine in the month of December it got very cold to where looking at ice made my body shiver. I had to take my final exams home, and I was completely unprepared. I was constantly on my phone or in the kitchen getting something to eat, so I never paid attention. Despite the lack of heat in my room, I was chilled. Textbooks and tests did not go well in my home. My math final required us to turn on our cameras. Since I hadn’t yet gotten the teacher assistants, had absolutely no idea what was happening as I was taking the exam. My grandmother kept calling me to help her with house chores and my mom kept blasting music to keep herself busy since she didn’t have any work. I was constantly distracted throughout taking my test and I didn’t understand what to do on the test as well. Before I knew it time was up and it was time to turn it in, I got 20 out of 100 questions done. I had an English exam after, I didn’t get to finish it as well. My Wi-Fi wasn’t working and the link to take my exam wasn’t working as well and the zoom to English wasn’t letting me in so I didn’t get to do it. When it came to studying for my exam three weeks prior, which was in science, it was hard since I was a procrastinator and the texture around me was always hard since I was on my bed. Using Zoom was also terrible. The teacher’s speaking seemed to be speaking in a foreign language to me and I never understand anything. In the afternoon, I had that exam and it felt like I had no time to do it. After all the exams I had for the the day my body felt aching and I was drained. They told us the scores on google classroom at night and I fished all three exams with an F.  If this was taken in a classroom setting I would’ve did better compared to when I did it at home . When I received such results, my education underwent a major transformation because it was clear that distant learning and confinement had a significant impact on my exam performance. When I tried to obtain help over Zoom, the teachers were unable to assist me since they couldn’t get in touch with me because they didn’t have office hours, and there were also no retakes for the examinations because they were online. This had a significant impact on my academic success.
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