“I can do this later”

Procrastinating in the school environment is common, and sophomores Luke Buglewicz and Reese Keller are just two of many who fall into the abyss of homework that builds up over time.

To Buglewicz, missing school is the main cause of his lack of motivation.

“If you get behind and miss one day, you miss so much because you have several classes in one day,” Buglewicz said. “It just adds up, and so I lose motivation.”

Oftentimes, not being at school means a loss of work time, help and lectures, which easily makes students fall behind on their work. This produces a lack of willingness and energy for completing it.

Buglewicz finds an internal struggle between wanting to have the drive to complete the workload, “but you just don’t [feel motivated. I see] I have missing homework but I just go to bed.”

Buglewicz is not alone in pushing work aside. Keller feels the same when she feels the lack of encouragement to finish her schoolwork.

“[I go into the] mindset of, ‘I can do this later, or, this is too much for me to do right now,’” Keller said.

She believes her loss of determination is much contributed to by Covid, when school on Zoom was fairly easy.

“[Online] was kind of a hard thing for students to come back from,” Keller said. “We could have [been] a little bit better [prepared].”