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I’ll begin with some phrases that im sure all of us have said at some point in our life, Just one more….i’ll start in 10 minutes...come on just 5 more minutes. The art of procrastination, something I believe personally I have mastered throughout the years, heck the few days that I should’ve been writing my script for this presentation, i’ve not only played a variety of games, i’ve also managed to play with my dogs, and watch a ton of videos, but that's beside the point. Procrastination is the practice of carrying out a less urgent tasks than an urgent one, in my case, I tend to do this all the time. An example of procrastination could be found all throughout Foothill, since we have the on, off days many students do one set of homework one night, and the others the next, and if the schedule is changed many students are S.O.L’d (Super Out of Luck), and I understand this could be taken as over generalizing kids at Foothill but you get the basics of the idea. So what causes this idea of procrastination? Well some people believe it to be because of our advancements in technology, and many other inventions that requires no energy whatsoever, because it’s much more easier to sit around and watch the latest YouTube video instead of doing homework on the differences between special and general relativity. But history has proven that the “art” of procrastination has been around since ancient Roman times, where once a consul named Marcus Tullius Cicero called procrastination “hateful in the conduct of affairs”, this means our ancestors have been faced with the similar battles of putting things off, and our advancements in technology hasn’t caused procrastination to suddenly occur, it's been around forever. So going back to the Foothill comparison, why do students choose that one set of homework that isn’t as fresh in their brain is much more important than the subject they had just learned about, no more than a few hours ago. Well not only is this idea of putting things off, engraved in our history, it’s probably more likely because doing all the homework is a major time consumer, instead of doing 2 to 3 hours of homework, on a Monday of all days, you can cut that in half by only doing half of it on Monday, and worry about the rest on a later date. Now many can perceive this as laziness. And that’s very true, procrastination even though it's got a fancier name it is a major type of laziness. It’s probably the most abundant form of laziness, at least in the youth. So when you ask me what I want to see in the future of America, I say that I want the youth to figure out that procrastination is keeping up with yesterday, when everyone should be keeping up with today and the future, and to to basically just get stuff done. Didn't need any sources when completing this assignment
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