My English 101 course was taught Mondays, Tuesdays,
and Thursdays at 9 am. And on a Monday morning early in the semester the
professor gave a reading assignment and then assigned several short essays
which were due in two weeks. The next day, at 8:59 am, a mere 24 hours later, a
highly ambitious student attempted to hand in the completed assignment. The
professor refused to accept it. The professor said I have since changed my mind about the assignment. I now plan on having
everyone read something else and then write a short paper instead. And the
student was annoyed and responded But I
already completed it. Yet the professor just shrugged his shoulders and in an
emotionless matter-of-factly tone remarked The early
bird catches the worm; but it is the early worm that gets eaten.
Sometimes procrastination advances time management--efficiency is better served by patience. Eagerness
is not always a virtue. So being a late worm is equally fortuitous as being an
early bird. Discipline often requires unrestraint. And it’s not a bad plan to
put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Good things can happen to those
who wait.
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