Daniel Shum
There are a lot of things that hinder me. It is the fact that I think I can finish everything but I can’t. Most of the time I think too highly of myself and do not complete the work that I need to do. I am a huge procrastinator and I think it is one of my greatest flaws. While I do work the only thing that pops into my head is facebook and it gets really distracting when I log on. I tried deactivating it but it is like a drug a habit that I can not cure. Procrastination has been with me since I was little as a child I would always put my chores off to the last minute and I would always get in trouble for not doing them. The tasks that are handed to me are truthfully not hard but I have an attention spam of a baby I look at one thing and I would be distracted. I mean a paper is a paper, studying for a test is studying for a test and it all isn’t very hard. However I just can not bring my self to being able to do the work. I sit at the computer for hours telling myself that after this game or after I eat this or after I sleep I will do the work but it never happens till the last minute. This is horrible because I end up doing bad work that gets bad grades and end up falling behind in class.
The change in grades also got to me I am not used to the hours of college. During my middle school and high school years class ended earlier and I didn’t have to take many. Most of my school days ended at 12 and I would go the park and enjoy my time. The work load was also less and I didn’t have to do as much as I have to do now. The big change in the amount of work and the change in the time of the classes really got to me. College for me starts roughly around 9 everyday and ends at about 4 everyday for me. If I were to be at a club, I wouldn’t have anytime to do work. I am also a very busy person and I work a lot with 3 different jobs. I have a lot of bills to pay because I do in fact live by myself and pay for my own college. I rent my own apartment having to pay all my billings that include gas, internet, electricity, water, heating and television. There is a lot to do and most of the time I don’t have time to do the work in the time I have. Moreover when I do have the time to relax I do want to relax and use my down time for things that are rather fun. I like to go out play sports or just chill and sit and watch a movie. I don’t like college much with the work because I find that as a business major most jobs are landed by having a huge network and networking is basically what we need. In my opinion most skill that we have are already given at birth and we all know if one is capable enough to be successful in the future. What also hinders me is that class sometimes is so boring in certain classes and it is amazing hard to pay attention. At time during class I doze off into another world and eventually fall asleep.
Time is a huge problem especially when the sun is out. When the sun is out I expect myself to be out playing instead of being inside doing work. When it is dark outside I like to be sleeping so my mentality is wrong. I do not like doing most of the work and when something gets too complicated I like to leave it for another time to do. Most of the time I hate to do work and would much rather do something else. These are the things that hinder me and make me a much more lazy person. I need a lot of sleep so I sleep around 12 everyday so I don’t have much time to do work. Also since I live by myself I need to cook and clean and stuff so I can’t do a lot of things in the time I have. Each day has only 24 hours what I can I do it isn’t like I can make there more hours in a day and make myself not tired.
