Taking it off
Agora Days. The long anticipated week that every student awaits for. It’s a time in the middle of the cold, dull, weather to take a break from all the stress and the work. And I’m not going to disagree with anybody that this is a time to enjoy yourself, because spending my time in funny and laid-back classes is always fun. On the other hand, it never fails that I only end up piling-up my work load.
Although this may not apply to everybody, I know that I have two tests and two papers due the week after Agora Days, but have I started on any of those? No. Instead I’ve been enjoying my time coming home after track practice to sit down, watch movies, hang out with friends, etc.
If anything, though, I should be using this time to prepare for all the work that I have next week. In fact, we should all be taking advantage of this time, but it’s something that’s very hard to do when you’re actually getting a decent amount of sleep and you’re not forced to do hours worth of homework each day.
During a typical school week I tend to get five to six hours of sleep per night, so the other night when I got about eight hours I was shocked. I told myself that I deserved this time off and thought, ‘Hey, kids from other schools get these luxuries every night, why can’t I have it for just one week?’ — which I still strongly support.
But as I was sitting on my couch watching “Hitch,” the entire time I was telling myself, ‘Oh, Lizzy, you should probably get your math homework out and work on it during the movie.’ And did I? Of course not.
I told myself that I would finish the movie and start on my homework when the movie was over, so that I could focus better. But did I work on it after the movie? No, I went upstairs and read my book instead. (Now don’t you worry, Mr. Russell, it’ll be on your desk on Monday!)
The point is, we are all sitting here and enjoying this time off, when we know we should get working. It’s a hard thing to get motivated after Tuesday and Wednesday were snow days last week (so technically there was no specific homework on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday night), Friday was a half day with no classes (so we had no homework to do on Thursday night either), and now Agora Week.
We should all probably take this time to get working and get started for the long week to come. But despite this entry I am guessing the majority of students will still only start their homework Sunday night.
— Lizzy Warner