Procrastination

Date: 4/15/2024

I was a student at a cooking school. I had a written assignment to turn in that was due at the end of the day. The class had been told this assignment was due weeks in advance, but I had not done any of it. The assignment consisted of 5 or 6 questions regarding what we would do if we encountered difficult problems with patrons we were serving. We had been reminded repeatedly to turn the assignment in. We had discussed several problems from the assignment in class, but I never paid attention during those discussions. Anyways, I was supposed to be meeting several friends, including Heidi, for an evening out, but I had to remain after class to finish the assignment. I turns out I had never even started working on it. I started with the first question, and gave a super long answer that took a long time to write. For some reason the paper I was writing on was extremely wide, like a yard across, and I wrote several lines in the first question. It seemed like there was a more definitive answer I should have provided, but since I hadn’t been paying attention in class when we discussed the topic I didn’t know what the exact answer should be, so I just wrote in a very general way about what the answer could be. I started to have anxiety about finishing because it was taking me forever to write out my answers. I knew my friends waiting were on me to join them for a night out, and I could tell the instructors were irritated at having to wait around for me to finish the assignment.