The 4.0 Challenge: Conquering laziness

Finally, my first spring semester has come. I'm finally allowed to mend the wounds that fall semester created. I get another shot at curing laziness, which ultimately prevails no matter how much I plan on being organized and productive 24/7. I get a whole new set of classes, which present new assignments, new books, new teachers, new grades, new everything. I once again am allowed to wipe the slate clean and try again to get straight A's. We all begin determined to stay in every night and not waste our time doing pointless activities, such as surfing Youtube and Facebook, playing Halo or reading fun books. "I am not going to touch my computer or look at the TV until I've studied for at least a good portion of the night," we all start off telling ourselves. And then slowly through the semester it slips away and we end up saying things like, "Ah! The hell with it," and "Whatever, I'll just do it later/tomorrow." 

Well, this semester, I think I, for once, am really going to crack down and try and reach goals that I set for myself at the beginning of every "slate wiping" without letting them slip down the tubes before may. 

School presents many distractions for our easily entertained and curiously wandering minds. There are too many places to discover,  too many people to see, too many things to do. And with all of this, we slowly develop responsibility. We learn that even though going out and hanging out with a group of people downtown does sound a lot better than writing a paper, a paper is necessary and your friends will probably be down there tomorrow night doing the same thing anyways, so you might as well be productive this one night in order to have fun the next. Or so all of our parents hope that we are learning of that thing called responsibility.

So, this next semester, I challenge all of those who are like myself; goal setting, but incredibly lazy, to crack down and finally grab that certain thing this semester that we have been proclaiming to attain since we learned that an A+ meant we got $5 from mom, or a night out to eat with the family, or a new video game from dad. I challenge you, as well as myself to be organized and strict about our school work... not over stressed and lacking pleasure from life, but strict.

I challenge you, as well as myself.