My plan to reread the article is to try and think about what each paragraph is telling me. If I understand what each paragraph is talking about, then I can understand the whole article and not feel like I’m taking too much information in at the same time which makes me confused. Also I’m going to make sure that I’m using context clues to find the definition of words I don’t know. This plan will help me feel like I understand the article better and also help me feel like it’s not so long and boring.
Author: Mia (Page 6 of 8)
While I felt like the article was really long, there was a lot of information included and evidence that made me understand the different ways of procrastinating. Something that I liked about the article is that the author included a lot of real world examples of procrastination. One of those examples is people not signing their taxes on time. In the article it says, “Each year, Americans waste hundreds of millions of dollars because they don’t file their taxes on time.” This is a very real example because many people do procrastinate on filling out their taxes, wether it’s because of procrastination or something else. Another part of the text I liked and felt like I could relate to, was when the author brought up how ignorance might affect procrastination through the planning fallacy which is what social scientist Jon Elster calls it. In the article James says, “When I was writing this piece, I had to take my car into the shop, I had to take two unanticipated trips, a family member fell ill, and so on. Each of these events was, strictly speaking, unexpected, and each took time away from my work. But they were really just the kinds of problems you predictably have to deal with in everyday life. Pretending I wouldn’t have any interruptions to my work was a typical illustration of the planning fallacy.” I relate to this because if I were to make plans to do my homework later on in the night, I wouldn’t really think that something could interrupt my plans to do my homework, I just blindly trust that everything will go according to my plan and that I will be able to complete it. But if something were to happen and my plans become delayed, it would lead me to procrastinate even more because now I had excuses as to why I couldn’t complete my homework. His examples and evidence were great which made me understand the points he was trying to make.
In this cold september morning, I wake up to the sound of my alarm, letting me know it’s time for class. I get up from my bed half asleep, get my computer and head to the kitchen. I am wearing my pajamas which are some shorts and a baggy t shirt. While I walk to the kitchen, I pass the living room and I see my cousin sitting in a chair in front of her own computer, paying attention to her own zoom class. Once I get to the kitchen, I see that my grandma is in front of the stove making some soup. I go ahead and sit down on the table and open my computer to start logging in to my zoom class. The chair i am sitting own is hard which makes my body feel rigid. The light coming from the window is bright and the light from the ceiling is making the room look even brighter. The window light is giving my computer screen a glare so I shift the computer to the right a little bit so that I can see better. It is winter and it feels cold in the house so I go back to my room to get a sweater. As I wait for class to start, I can hear the sound of the soup boiling and the smell of it. I can hear my grandma talking to my cousin making sure that she understands what her teacher is saying. To my left is the fridge and the window, to my right is the entrance to the kitchen and the door to leave my house, under me are my bare feet and my slides, behind me is the sink and the stove. In front of me is the computer with my teacher now talking and starting the lesson for the day.
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