WE ARE NOT ALL SLACKERS

Today when I was in the house chamber, after having my picture taken with Gov. M. Jodi Rell, which was fun!!, I was talking with Dr. Forst. Dr. Forst is the internship program director and the one who grades our internship assignments. This Thursday we have a 10 paged paper due about the state budget process and one area of the budget that we have had experience with.

During my conversation he made a comment about me only having two days and that it would be incredible if I got it done in time, along with a shocked look when I told him I did the first half last night, staying up until 2:30 am. My question here is - why is it that professors think that just because we have had all semester to complete an assignment that we are going to start in the beginning of the semester? Myself along with almost every student I know tend to wait until the last possible moment to even look over the assignment. This isn't entirely because we are lazy or big time procrastinators, like I find that most professors believe us to be, but rather because we HAVE OTHER CLASSES!!

I have a schedule like many other students that is very busy. I intern 2x per week in Hartford, I take 3 courses on campus the other days, I work 5 hours per week in the school of communications trying to make a little spending money, I am a writer for QUAD News, and I am also partly involved in other organizations. In addition to all that students like me also have to worry about what classes to take next semester, when and where are they going to be interning this summer, finals are a coming up really soon, our mom's wanting us to call home more often, our roommates telling us our laundry smells, our other roommates give us dirty looks from across the room because in a moment of utter exhaustion you flipped out on them last week, your professor just sent out an email saying your presentation is this week not next, it's time to start packing, I still don't have roommates or a place to live next year, my friends blew me off last weekend and I'm still debating if I should make plans with them last week, oh and making time for a trip to the gym a couple times a week to work off the calories you took in last weekend from the 1 a.m. call to dominoes.

So with all our course work plus those issues and a few more I DID HAVE TO PUT MY PAPER OFF UNTIL THE LAST WEEK!! BUT I PROMISE IT WILL BE AMAZING! SO STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE I'M A SLACKER!