Students discuss their bad habits

By Eden Buell

Q: What is your bad habit, as listed in the survey you took?

A: “My bad habit would be getting distracted when I’m supposed to be doing work. That usually means going on my phone.”

Q: How long have you had that bad habit?

A: “It’s always been a bad habit of mine. I kind of waste a lot of time I could be using productively.”

Q: How did this bad habit form?

A: “I would say it formed because having a phone and having people to text on your phone. That kind of motivates you to go on your phone.”

Q: How are you working to overcome this bad habit?

A: “I try to stay away from my own [phone] when I do hard work; like, if it gets necessary enough, I’ll leave my phone in a different room or I turn it off,where I just try to keep it over and not look at it.”

Q: What is your advice to others for overcoming bad habits?

A: “Be aware of it and try not to ignore it, because if you ignore it, you’re not gonna make any progress towards overcoming it. Try different ways of overcoming it. If one thing doesn’t work for you, you can try it differently.”

Q: Why did you decide to fix your bad habit?

A: “It prevented me from doing a lot of my work, and I realized if I did work faster I could have more time then to go on my phone. Then [I could] get distracted and do stuff that actually interests me, so I just try to get my work out of the way first.”

Q: “What is your bad habit, as listed in the survey you took?”

A: “I think my bad habit I left in the survey was just a lot of procrastination.”

Q: “How long have you had that bad habit?”

A: “Looking back, probably elementary school, middle school definitely; just pretty much since I was in school.”

Q: “How did this bad habit form?”

A: “I think the bad habit formed because I just realistically didn’t want to do homework. I prioritized having fun whether it be playing video games, watching TV, or hanging out with my friends. I prioritized that over completing any type of assignment.

Q: “How are you working to overcome this bad habit?”

A: “More recently in high school, the biggest cause of my distraction was my phone because it was just easily accessible, and I would grab it to either text some friends, use Tik Tok, Instagram, some type of social media to distract myself. Once I realized the problem, I moved my phone away from myself. For example, if I’m doing work at my desk I’ll leave my phone on my bed and let it charge on ‘do not disturb’ [mode] so that I’m not tempted to grab it. That really helped me avoid picking it up every five minutes.”

Q: “What is your advice to others for overcoming bad habits?”

A: “My biggest advice to others is definitely you have to realize what your bad habit is in order to fully understand how to get rid of it. A lot of times people have bad habits but they don’t really understand why it’s a bad habit or what exactly is the bad habit. So, once you recognize it, you are able to get over it and figure out a way of how you want to overcome it.”

Q: “Why did you decide to fix your bad habit?”

A: “Honestly, it was because I really hated it. Mostly during quarantine, I used to play video games all day and then I stayed up till 2 AM doing homework because I procrastinated till the last hour or two. Then, I would have five hours of sleep waking up to Zoom calls or I would accidentally fall asleep during chemistry my sophomore year.”

Q; What is your bad habit, as listed in the survey you took?

A: “My bad habit is ego lifting.”

Q: How long have you had this bad habit?

A: “I’ve had it for like a cool five months; half the school year basically”.

Q: How did this bad habit form?

A: “It started last year when I started going to the gym and I made reckless decisions”.

Q: How are you working to overcome this bad habit?

A: “I did a lot more studying on the body and our muscle groups, and how they need to be worked out”.

Q: What is your advice to others for overcoming bad habits?

A: “Me personally, I would say try to think about things before you do them, and think about the consequences that might come with the bad habit; that will affect your future basically”.

Q: Why did you decide to fix your bad habit?

A: “I noticed that it wasn’t helping me at all, and it was creating problems where I was disappointed with myself and the work I was putting in”.