Survival of the Fresher

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Blabbermouth
First year is all about work and meeting deadlines, but do anyone really cares about the struggle we face in achieving these goals? Have you ever wondered why most first years do their assignments on the day before? Tell me someone, if you know the answer. Some people say that first years are generally slack but l do not believe that. There should be something deeper than that, but is anyone really concerned, I don’t know!
I have experienced some of the horrors of doing assignments only the day before and believe me it is not good at all. The pressure is just too much and when we are given back the assignments, the marks are lower than l expected. But my question is why the last minute? I have noticed that it is not all our fault, but don’t get me wrong, l am not blaming anyone here. The reason why is not because we are lazy as most people think but it is due to a lot of confusion and lack of self confidence. Most first years when they are given an assignment, they are usually confused about what to do and they do not have the confidence to approach the lecturer to ask. At the end they are forced to do the work because the deadline will be loaming just a few hours away. The assignment is not done because they enjoy doing it but because there is nothing they can do about it because the lecturers want the work done.
Another factor that contributes to working close to the deadline is perfectionism. Let me describe what perfectionists do, they struggle to do everything right or to make everything perfect or even more than the word perfect itself, and most of the time the work is not done on time. This is the case with most first years who want to please their lecturers, which is a good thing to do, and prove to their peers that they are academically smart. However, this is turned into a nightmare because the work is not done on time and the marks are always poor. The thing is we do not do work for the sake of enjoying but for the sake of just doing it because of the deadline.
In addition we should also consider the fact that for most of us it is our first time to be away from home and parents. We are so used to being pushed around to do work by our parents and right now it is difficult to just work without someone telling us to do so. The freedom we have is too much that we tend to forget why we are here. I am not saying that everyone is like that, but l know a lot of people who want to be pushed to work. Many people mistake this issue for laziness which is not true because most first years are hard workers especially with the duly performed certificate thing, no one want to lose their DP,for sure.
Most first years believe that working under pressure will produce good marks for them. We are so used to that habit but listen somebody, it does not work, and l have tried it several times. It works sometimes for those who are really smart, who can endure the pressure and these people l consider them to be gifted or genius because for most of us it does not work, unless of course you have a photographic mind like the late US President John F Kennedy. Pressure of work actually strains us that we are left exhausted and unable to concentrate on other subjects. But is it really our fault, I wonder.
On the whole, all l am saying is we should always look for better reasons why most first years do assignments closer to the deadline. People must not just scratch the surface and rush to conclusions that first years are generally slack. There are many factors that contribute to our behaviour and sometimes it is beyond our control. For first years, I say that please let us not take these reasons for grunted, let us try to work in time for a change so that we prove to all the people that we are not slack as they think.

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