I tend to procrastinate when it comes to doing my homework. Don’t get me wrong, I do my homework right away when I get home, but when it comes to papers and that kind of homework, I put it off. I have a tendency work better under pressure. Working under pressure gives me a thrill of knowing that a paper is due tomorrow, or this project was due today, but I have an extra day to work on it because we didn’t get to me in class. When I came to college, getting my homework done right away didn’t seem quite the right thing to do. I have many more distractions in my dorm room and hall than I did at home. Someone is always walking by, or they will come and talk to me. Its not like high school where I would retreat to my room until my homework is done. I get it all done; it just may be late at night when I finally finish it. In the class room, it is a little different. When I am in the classroom, I take notes and listen and I hate it when someone is talking next to me and I am trying to listen. I have a hearing loss and when there are some background noises, it is hard for me to listen because that is all I hear. That is why I get a seat up in front, so I can hear. When I am in class, I take good notes and when I get back, I rewrite them so they are neat. If my notes aren’t in the way that I like them to be, I will rewrite them because I like organization and neatness. That is something else that is good about me, as a student, I am organized. I can find all my notes and papers. I am a big neat freak, but being a neat freak doesn’t keep me from having a social life. Most of the time, I do like retreating back to my room to have some “me” time, but there are other times where I like to go out and have some fun. I love to go to clubs and meet new people. In high school, I was a part of many activities such as sports; I was on yearbook and participated in the spring musical. I wasn’t in the musical, but I did costuming. That was a lot of fun. I got closer to my friends and I met new people. I won’t do something because someone told me to do it with them; I need to do have an interest in it myself.

When I am in school, I have a hard time getting all of the information into my head and having it stick in there. When I learn something, I learn it, but the second that we go into something else, the information just slips out and waits for the new information. That is why I don’t do well on tests. In general I do well in school, but when it comes to tests like that ACT and the SATs, I don’t do that well on them. That is a challenge for me, not remembering what I am reading or learning. I love science and all that is has to offer. I love studying the past, present and future. Math is a challenge for me, but science math I can do. I don’t know why I am like that. Usually people are good at both, but for me it is science. I am a very loud person once you get to know me, but when I first meet people I am shy. That is why I normally join a club or something of the sort with a friend, that way I can be myself.

I would love to get myself back into the habit of getting my homework done right away, that way I can hang out with my friends at night, talk to my boyfriend who goes to a different college than I do and go to the clubs that I want without worrying that I wont get my homework done on time. I would also like to get into the habit of taking notes when I read. I like to underline the important facts, but I never write them down.

Some of the steps that I can take are, getting back to my room and doing the homework. When someone comes to talk to me, I can tell them that I need to get my homework done and I will talk to them when I am done. I won’t start up my AIM or other instant messages because I like to talk to my friends that go to a different college than me. Keeping up with them is important to me, so I will just have to talk to them when my homework is done. They are just going to have to deal with it.

-- AshleyBell - 11 Oct 2005
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