Why is it that?

Question

Here it is on Sunday morning and all the questions in Education are about Homework Help. Do you all expect to do your assignments at your job after you graduate at the last possible minute?

There's an old saying, "The quality of the finished product is directly proportionate to the time spent on it."

DT - I'm really not grouchy. I am an employer and it saddens me to see the terrible skills that are being developed by our future workforce. Put it off until the last minute and then go on the Internet and try to get the answers from someone else. What skills are these people learning? Besides I'm stuck here for a while working on a project that has a deadline of March 9th.

Edit - Oh and DT there are three things you can have on a finsished project

Speed
Low cost
Quality

You only ever can have 2 of them at the same time. You tell me which you are getting when it is done at the last minute.

Answer 1

I just saw a question for a project that is due tomorrow and the asker thumbed down people who said the project should have been started already and told to look up the information.

When my son needs help with something that neither myself nor my husband can help with I do use Y!A for reference or help describing something, but my son knows that if he ever used the Internet to do his work for him he would be grounded for 2 months and be my slave. He prefers to do his own work.

Answer 2

We are a nation of procrastinators. Procrastination, by definition is putting off doing something, due to habitual carelessness or laziness. Unfortunately, many people these days search for the 'instant' fix or the easy approach to finishing a project.

On the 'flip side", in college, many of my best projects were completed at the last minute. At that time, I worked best under pressure.

Answer 3

The quality of the product is not directly proportionate to the time spent on it. It is a minor indicator at best. The best advice I could give a student is to balance their personal life and their school life. Sometimes that means they will put their homework off, sometimes they will get it done early.

You're grouchy, lighten up... go read a fiction novel, take a walk, do something fun... Put your work off, come back later ;)

Answer 4

I agree with you. I always did my own homework. This was before the Internet, so we had to use an old fashioned device--it was called your brain!

Answer 5

Why procrastinate today what you can put off til tomorrow