Have you ever used these excuses to get out of doing your schoolwork?
1. “I’m just not smart enough to pass this class.”
2. “The professor isn’t any good, so I’ll never be able to learn.” Continue reading
“I soon realized that when my high school teachers told me that college wasn’t a piece of cake, they weren’t kidding. I couldn’t believe the amount of studying I had to do in college.” —Syreeta Owens, the State University College of Technology at Farmingdale As they begin their freshman year in college, many students don’t know how to study—in large part because they haven’t been challenged in high school. In high school, self-esteem blossoms as a result of rampant grade point inflation. In college, the bubble bursts with the discovery that grades are based on real achievement. It’s always a shock and often a mess. 
Then you stare at the window, watching the song download with the speed of a glacier. An hour and twenty minutes later, you have 99 percent of the song when the “Transfer Error” message pops up and you lose the whole thing. Then you start writing a paper (because that’s what you swore to your parents the brand-new computer was for), but you can’t save it because there’s no more room on your hard drive. It’s filled with songs. Then we have instant messages. 
Everyone tells you about the vices you’ll be faced with when you go to college: drinking, smoking, drugs, wild sex. There are other vices that are just as insidious, but less well known: procrastination and time-wasting. Procrastination is the bane of many a college student. Well, yes, Scarlett, but not always when it comes to studying. You shouldn’t beat yourself up about slipping from your study schedule here and there, but neither should you take refuge in these old excuses: Calendar
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