Monologue

My name is marc Betesh and i am 18 years old. Entering my frehman year as a college student, I promised myself that I wouldn’t repeat the same lazy and procrastinating habits that I had in high school. People always told me that in order to survive in college and essentially in the “real world,” it is important to be very organized and to do your work, days, if not weeks in advance.  Being that I am the most unorganized kid in the world, I knew this was going to be a challenge, however I was very eager to prove to myself that I was able to face this problem head on. As college began, I had a plan to do every piece of work the day it was assigned and not to leave anything to the last minute. This plan worked for the first couple assignments, but after a couple of weeks and as I began to get more comfortable in this new atmosphere, my old self kicked in. I was now once again resorting to my old habits and leaving most of my work for the night before it was assigned. Don’t get me wrong, I completed the material necessary for all my classes, but the stress that I was now under due to my procrastination, was greater that it should have been. After one night where I was up until 230 in the morning, drinking tons of coffee and finishing up two reports that were due for the next day, I decided that enough was enough. I now saw the real truth in what everyone used to tell me, and I decided that this time, I was going to change my ways for good. Using the calendar that was given to me by my outstanding freshman seminar peer mentors, I was now writing down all my assignments and marking them for the date that I should complete them, rather for the date that they were due. Not only did this new system make it easy for me to do all my work to the best of my capability, but it in retrospect also gave me much more free time than if I would have delayed and pushed my work off. I also found a new discovery called the library, which now became a very vital part in my daily routine. In my breaks I went to the library and did my work in a very quiet and efficient manner, free from distraction. I was now able to finish most if not all the work I was planning to do for when I got home. This made my life much easier and stress free. I never truly realized how much time I was actually wasting rather than being productive. This new founded free time that I now so fortunately had, enabled me to greater explore Baruch, and the different kinds of programs that it offered. I soon found out that there was so much more to Baruch than just, classrooms, students and textbooks. I quickly became interested in many different groups and clubs, which dealt with many of my hobbies and interests. Looking back on my first couple weeks of college I only wish that I knew about the importance of being organized and the freedom that it would actually give me from the beginning. Moving forward, I plan to keep up my new ways as I move to tackle my next phase of my college experience, and hopefully I will be able to achieve all my goals and desires. From this day on my old ways of being lazy, are behind me, and it is my job to make sure that they will always be a thing of the past.