Diamond Bar High School - Taurus Yearbook (Diamond Bar, CA)

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bcKer I ale Than Never 7 By Susan Healy Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Sound familiar? Did you find your- self staying up past midnight finishing a pro- lect you ' d known about for three weeks? Did ou spend your lunches frantically finishing our fifth period homework? Were you con- stantly, inventing creative excuses for why you ladn ' t finished an assignment? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you were a victim of procrastina- tion. There were three types of procrastina- tors: the occasional procrastinator who some- times postponed an assignment or two until a couple of days before it was due, the moderate procrastinator who usually waited until the day before to start a project, and the chronic pro- crastinator who waited until the period before to do homework and was frequently awake until two oclock in the morning finishing a long-ago-assigned project. Those in the last category often exhibited the worst symptoms. First, when their teacher assigned a big project due in three weeks, they vowed to start on it that very afternoon. They decided that, this time, they weren ' t going to A Filling in the squares that designate points for the Class of the Year competition, Student Activities Director Dale Favier catches up on the tally During the second semester, Mr. Favier tried not to put off this task. be stuck doing the assignment at three in the morning on the day it was due. Each time I get an assignment, I tell myself I ' m going to do it right away, related sopho- more Eugene Yang. Then, something came up like an important tennis match, a really good concert, or an in- teresting episode of Magnum P. I., and they found reasons why not to start the assign- ment. Why be early? questioned junior Erin Sullivan. If it ' s not due yet, why do it? reasoned junior Ann Reyes. All too quickly, the due date approached and the chronic procrastinators found themselves in the all-too-familiar situation of working on weekends and staying up late doing a project. I sometimes have to read two books a day for book reports that I put off until the last minute, related junior Niki Rhone. On the dreaded due date, the procrastina- tors dragged themselves out of bed after only two hours of sleep. Usually, they were able to hand in the assignment, although they didn ' t known what it was about because they wrote it when they were half asleep. When asked why they didn ' t start the project weeks earlier, they made up excuses. I work better at 3:00 in the morning, remarked junior Kala Morgan. Age betters things, stated Mr. John Park, science teacher. I like to see how far I can push myself, said sophomore Donna Macciola. I can get things done with the same amount of quality doing them later, explained junior Paul Montero. These seemingly irrational people existed on campus in all facets of high school life. Howev- er, rarely could they explain the reason for their strange affliction. I don ' t mean to procrastinate, I just do it, said junior Maryrose Mendoza. Procrastination is a waste of time, com- mented freshman Hae Sin Kim. Procrastination is a bad habit that almost everybody has, observed freshman Celli Tie- mann. When asked why she procrastinated, junior Rona Kay replied, I ' ll tell you tomorrow. - %U Procrastination Feature 39

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► Using lunchtime to do their homework, freshmen Mark Nappi and Jeff Wilson complete a Spanish assign- ment. Many procrastinators found themselves finishing their fifth period homework at lunch. 38 Feature Procrastination

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