You will often see students whining about the workload of projects that they have to do. With the new KPUP system, projects are now 30% of your final grade. Teachers will usually give the project during the second half of the term. With projects ranging from just writing an article to making an app, students are given enough time to work on them. Some, however, choose to not work on them and choose raise their rank up in League of Legends instead. This results in cramming and giving up. Students will say "Next week pa naman due eh" and continue with what they originally planned on doing and a day before the deadline they just don't care and choose not do it. Before, this wouldn't affect your grade as much as it does now. If you didn't do your project, the highest possible grade you can get is 70 assuming you get perfect in all your tests and submit all your assignments but we all know that's almost impossible. A student's laziness isn't only in submitting projects. It can also affect the way we do other tasks.
Having a "lazy" attitude can affect things other than schoolwork. The reason a student never does his projects is because he doesn't even think about it. When a student is given a task, he places it in some part of his brain and thinks about it when he needs to. A responsible student will think about his task whenever he has the time and finishes said task on time. Why? Because he takes time to think about it. A lazy student will only place the task in a certain part of his brain and just forgets about it until one or two days before it's due. This habit will stay with the student until the day he dies. For every day that he doesn't do anything about it, it will get worse. It might even reach to the point where it costs him his life. But until then, he will have to be lazy in work or when he gets married. Worst thing that can happen? You forget to pick up your bedridden child's medicine.
The solution? Set a goal. Setting a goal has helped me in remembering to do my schoolwork. My previous goal was to get exempted every time (That isn't possible now). Whenever I think of my goal, it motivates me to do my schoolwork. Once I achieved my goal, it felt good. Why? Because I did all the things I was supposed to do without having any problems and even got something for my hard work.
-Ricardo Lapak
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