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It was the beginning of eighth grade and I was assigned a project in my English class. The assignment was to give a book report presentation in which we were given two weeks to complete. I decided to make a create-your-own adventure story with each slide of a powerpoint as a page, with the correct path as the one that actually occurred in the novel. It came to that final weekend and I had only an outline completed to that point. I was confident I would be able to finish as I had never turned in an assignment late or only partially completed. Before this project I was in cruise control regarding work outside of school. It never was something in which I needed to block time out of my day to do. Going into Sunday afternoon, nothing had changed, but I knew it was time to begin working. As night fell I slowly started to realize that this was no small task and I was going to be cutting this close. At around 11 pm I realized that my thought of always getting it done was shattered. At the time, 11 pm was …show more content…

I was filled with embarrassment as I showed Mrs. Greenhoe my empty hands. Eventually, I completed the project and gave my presentation. It was after I had given my presentation and was sitting down that I began to reflect on what caused this to happen. Yes, I procrastinated, but my thoughts were on that Sunday night when I chose to go to bed with an incomplete assignment. It was then that I realized that I was terrified of something more than turning in the project late. I was scared of going to bed late and being tired the next day. I would rather go to bed so and keep all my life cycles normal then stay up late to complete my work. As I grew up I realized that the realization was me being more scared of sacrificing key parts of my life for school, than being willing to go out to accomplish my responsibilities. In that classroom I resolved to never be put sleep ahead of finishing a

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