|
It has become apparent to me that I have a trouble getting on task. I am on the highway to a bright and glorious future, yet I am the type of student who does 5 assignments in one night because it is not until the night before the due date that I go and do the task. More after the jump
Now while this is most plainly called procrastination, it has occured to me that in order to procrastinate, there has to be something you would rather do. With me the last couple of weekends it has been this website. Other times it will be sites like Zuneboards.com. Half of it is I push off starting things because I more enjoy doing work on a website than doing something for a class that I own in. It's almost ironic. You can't call it laziness because I am doing work instead. So what is it? Is it just boredom over the trite and simplistic work that is assigned. Is it a feeling of meaninglessness associated with work that seems separate from reality? I don't know. But the second time is during the assignment when you just sort of fade out and think "I'll just check XXX for like 2 minutes and get back on subject." We all know what happens next. This is most likely simple distraction, caused by lack of focus. But again, does it not hold my interest simply out of boredom? I think for me, it is. The whole idea of ADD is common in today's society. But with that, wouldn't ADD simply be an evolutionary methodology to avoid working on something that the creature doesn't feel useful? So wouldn't the main way to help prevent procrastination be simply to change the assignment into something that has meaning? The problem is that isn't easy. We have people like me who is interested in technological things and people who are interested in philosophy. How can you interest both and how can you keep a philosophy student interested in an engineering class? Talk about the soul of the machine? It is common today to say everyone has to know everything to be well rounded. Why does a gym teacher need to know Shakespeare? It seams to be an assumption today that the Renaissance man model is best, but why? Specialization of labor is a way to watch the advancement of mankind and with exponential growth in knowledge, how can we expect people to learn things they are not interested in? While obviously, a baseline knowledge in english is neccesary. The engineer needs trig, but does the chef need calculus? But anyways. I currently am distracting myself from Calculus, a subject I am awesome in and took voluntarily when I could easily have dropped down from. So I guess this contradicts my theory? Well, for me calculus homework is just a pain you have to do for a grade, the homework for me doesn't help knowledge all that much. I could gain the knowledge other ways. So for me, it feels non essential and trite, so why do it when I can do something exciting and new like this site!? Well, I should finish this up, I have calculus to do...
|
