The 5 Stages of Doing Homework

1. Anger/Irritation 

HOW DARE YOUR TEACHER ASSIGN YOU HOMEWORK!!! Don't they know you have a million other things you'd rather be doing?  You give your teacher evil eyes from your desk and sit there smoldering for the rest of class.

2. Denial

You're on the couch, watching Netflix.  There's a voice in the back of your head, telling you there's something you should be doing instead of binging The Office for the fourth time.  "You have homework to do."  What? Homework? Never. You tell that voice to "shove it," and pointedly ignore it for as long as you can.

3. Guilt

Now it's starting to eat at you.  Your distractions are becoming less effective.  The little voice in your head is getting louder and louder and you're starting to feel bad.  This is your education, after all, shouldn't you embrace your homework with the zeal of learning, the ambition of a scholar?  But you don't, and that makes you feel guilty.

4. Panic

YOU'LL NEVER GET IT DONE!!!  You've wasted so much time that you now have little precious time before the deadline.  Scrambling, you try to pull your act together.

5. Acceptance

The homework is real, and you've got to do it.  You buckle down and get to work.  Your brain capacity seems to grow exponentially as you power through your assignment with precision and speed. The longer you spent in the other stages, the less time you have for this stage, and that will likely affect the quality of your work. The best of us reach acceptance early on, thus avoiding the guilt and panic stages.  But some of us will wait as long as possible, finding ourselves completing the work in the hallway, minutes before it's due. 


What stage do you find yourself in the most?  Comment below!

Know your study habits and do what you can to improve them, thus improving your grades and your overall happiness level.

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