It occurs to me that teenagers are not very good at time management. Ask any teacher in the school and I’m pretty sure that they will agree with that idea. Homework is turned in late or sometimes not even turned in at all. Projects are put off until the night before they are due. All of this procrastination is the main cause of the drop in the quality of school work at Freedom. This current generation of students seems to be less motivated to do school work. They care less about their grades or their chances of being accepted to college. As a senior in my last month of high school, I am starting to feel the end approaching. I no longer sit down to do my calculus homework when I get home from work, instead choosing to save it until English class the next day. I keep telling myself that I will make time to do it, and in my case I know I will. However, there are a lot of students out there who use procrastination as an excuse not to do their work at all. I remember learning about time management in freshmen seminar four years ago. At that point, I thought I didn’t need to pay attention to what the teachers were trying to tell us because I already knew it all. Four years later, I am looking back and wishing that I had listened to what Ms. Martz was saying, rather than focusing on my plans for that weekend. For most high school students, good time management is crucial to succeeding in high school, and as Mr. Saludis always tells me, college. Between balancing eight classes, extra-curricular activities, sports, and some semblance of a social life, students are very pressed for time. They have to learn to make time to do their algebra homework or study for their history test because it’s only going to get harder in college. Time management is probably the hardest thing a high school student has to learn. After four years of practice, I still don’t feel anywhere close to knowing how to properly manage my time. Don’t get me wrong, I am a lot closer to understanding then I was on my first day of my freshman year, but I still have a long way to go. So I guess what I am trying to say to the underclassmen is to make good time management a priority in the years they have left in high school. Procrastination is gaining strength in our generation and soon I suspect we will find it spilling from our classrooms to our workplaces.