With just eight weeks left in the 2022-2023 school year, many students are excited to ditch their books in exchange for the warm sand and sun of the Southern California coast. However, this eager anticipation commonly comes with a side-effect, procrastination. 

This is a common issue amongst Buena students, the further into the school year we are, the more the ill effects of procrastinating on school work and home work are felt. 

Possible reasoning for procrastination can be the feeling of skipping an assignment because it might not have a significant impact grade, or waiting until the last minute to do it. Motivations like these can linger in a student until the end of the school year.

Freshman Brody Kaylor agrees that doing school work can get increasingly more challenging. He, like many other students, feels it was easier to get work done in the beginning of the school year compared to now. 

“Being in school for so long can definitely make it harder to have motivation to do assignments,” Kaylor said.

For many, a fresh mind when trying to do work makes it much easier when comparing it to your mind being worked for months.

Senior Brody Padilla says that a big part in his loss of motivation of completing assignments comes from the material in the assignments itself. Having to spend so much time on an assignment that does not interest him often leads to procrastination. 

“I think if the subject of the school work that I do was something that I was interested in, then I would be much more excited and willing to do it,” Padilla said.

Many students around the school can relate and agree with the idea that the work is uninteresting, resulting in an increase of procrastination. 

Advice that can be given to students struggling with procrastination or loss of motivation is to be optimistic about it. Examples of this are to think about how stress free you would feel knowing all of your work is done, and to think about positives of doing the work.

“I am just trying to finish off the school year strong,” Padilla said. “Then I can enjoy my summer once it is over.”