Putting it off

Christine Ernest Staff Writer

CME722@CABRINI EDU

Procrastination is an all toocommon phenomenon for college students and adults alike. Excuses such as “I’ll do it tomorrow” or “There’s always more time” are always easier to blurt out than actually getting work done.

MSNBC defines procrastination as “putting off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness: to postpone or delay needlessly.”

Dave Erlich, senior English and communication major, said, “I’d like to be a good student and start my work in a timely fashion so I don’t have to rush, but there’s too many good things on TV, and my guitar fills in the commercials.”

Unfortunately putting off that report until the last minute may cause more than poor marks.

According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Students who procrastinate…are likely to have unhealthy patterns of sleep, diet, and exercise.”

“Sometimes when I leave all my projects to the last minute, it really has a bad effect on me,” Amanda Popovitch, sophomore political science major, said. “I have trouble sleeping and I give myself headaches instead of actually getting it done. This worrying takes up more time than it would just to do the work.”

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that procrastinators have higher chances of developing digestive ailments, insomnia, and cold and flu symptoms than students who are not procrastinators.

“It’s an awful feeling. I wish I didn’t procrastinate,” Cristina D’Amelio, sophomore psychology major, said. “I would avoid more stomachaches that way. It’s all in your head, but somehow your tummy starts to hurt.”

Fuschia Sirois, a doctoral candidate in psychology, and Timothy Pychyl, an associate of professor psychology, said that procrastinators have “higher rates of smoking and drinking and a tendency to postpone seeing doctors for acute health problems.”

With finals coming up, health is something that students at Cabrini College cannot compromise.

Cabrini’s cross-country team has been growing stronger each year. The women’s season finished strong with freshman Carolyn Roberts at a time of 23: 17, making it to first-team allconference. Other runners who contributed to a successful season were Jackie McGuckin, and Janine Faulls making it to second-team all- conference.

Roberts is a freshman from Gwynedd-Mercy high school and has been a top runner as her first season at Cabrini. She finished third place overall at Pennsylvania Athletic Conference regional with a time of 19:59, just behind the number two runner, from the College of Misericorida’s top runner Amy Bower with a time of 19:06.

Other Cabrini runners also finished honorably. McGuckin, senior captain, finished ninth at reginals with a time of 21:52 qualifining her for the secondteam all-conference. Faulls, sophmore finished regional with a time of 23:36.

McGuckin has now completed her last season with Cabrini’s cross country team. “I am proud of this year’s team. I will miss the time spent with the girls most,” McGuckin said. She looks forward to seeing the future success of her teammates that will be returning. Fortunatly, McGuckin will be the only teammate graduating. The team will be growing even stronger next year with a number of recruites to join the current runners.

Track members also took advantage of the cross country season by training for their own season. Latisha Johnson, captain of the track team, ran in a few cross country meets to build endurance for her season whitch has just begun.

Johnson has been encouraging her team to train on their own to gain an advantage in their season. Stay posted for the track season results as their season starts.