Wouldn't It Be Nice If We All Had An Undo Button

Last night I was doing my usual nightime computer ritual of procrastinating doing my homework, stalking people on facebook, and playing a game. I don't play alot of video or computer games because I am not that good at them and honestly, who wants to play a game that they aren't good at? So, my guilty pleasure, the one game that I am good at, is Spider Solitaire.

Now, I personally think that Spider Solitaire is possibly the most underrated game ever. I don't know why, but whenever I go on the computer I like have to play it. Its like I am drawn to it. I often find myself saying "just one game" and then that one game turns into twenty (thats what happened every time I went to go do my 20 page research paper for English). I am so addicted to it its not even funny.

As I was playing last night I got to a point in the game where I had two choices to make of practically the same move. I had two different threes and I didn't know which one to move. I moved one of them and I didn't find the card underneath it useful so I hit "undo". It was if I had never moved the first three. I then moved the other three and underneath it was a very useful card. If only life was this simple.

Wouldn't it be nice if we all had an undo button in our life? Everything would be alot easier, whenever you messed up you could just hit undo and then it would be like nothing ever happened. Or even bettter, if you had two choices, you could try one of them and if it didn't work out you could just hit undo and try your other choice.

I wish I had an undo button. I could try out all the different options I have for college and then that would be the end of it. No more worrying about if I am making the right choice, no more stress, no more nagging from my mom, it would be so nice. Unfortunately, undo buttons only exist on computer games so I am going to have keep doing things the human way.

Senioritis

Senioritis. I never thought that I would get it. For all of those who are unfamilar with it, Senioritis causes Seniors (in high school or college) to become extremely lazy. Seniors with the disease either a) put off all of their work until the last possible second or b) do not do their work at all. The disease is supposedly caused by a lack of motivation due to graduation.

In my case, Senioritis did not hit me all at once, it kind of just appeared gradually. One Monday I was about to start a project andI thought, this isnt due to till Friday, why do I have to start it now? And then the rest of the week just went by and before I knew it, it was thursday night and I had not written one thing.

At about 11:30 that night I finally started my project. I did alot of it but then around 1 I started to get tired. I decided to do a little bit more of it and then to go to sleep. I set my alarm a little bit earlier than usual so I could finish it when I woke up. In the morning when my alarm went off I didn't even realize it and I slept right through it. I woke up at an hour and a half later than I was supposed too late for school with my project not being done.

I ended up missing the first few periods of school because I had to finish my project. It wasn't the end of the world but I did happen to fall under Senioritis' wrath. Since then I occasionally skip a homework and I sometimes "forget" to study for a test but nothing too bad. I wish I could do something that could help to fight Senioritis but unfortunately I am just too lazy.

College Applications: The Procrastination Game

I have been looking forward to College for as long as I could remember. I loved the idea of being on my own, far away from my parents and their rules. It all seemed so far away and then before I knew it it was time for me to start looking at Colleges. Throughout my junior year I looked at Binghamton, Buffalo, University of Delaware, and University of Maryland: College Park.

When Junior year ended I was so relaxed because I figured no more work until September. Thats probably why I was surprised when in August alot of my friends all said that they started their applications. I have always been a procrastinator so to me, August was way to early to start. Everyone kept warning me that the applications took forever but i just kept pushing them aside. I knew I would get everything done so I was not worried.

The rest of the summer flew by and then school started. Everyone was talking about where they were applying and where they wanted to go. College was the center of every conversation but I was still unsure of where I wanted to apply. In the end of September, my best friend handed in all of her applications and finished all of her essays. I finally decided that maybe it was time to start.

I started with the "easy" stuff. I did all of the forms and filled out all of the blue sheets for the guidance apartment in my school. I hit my teachers up for recommendations and I made my resume. I finished all of my stuff within a month but one thing: the dreaded essay.

I thought my college essay was going to be the easiest thing to write. It had no specifications and I could basically write whatever I wanted, but no matter what I did, I could not write it. I tried writing it from all different "angles". After all of my attempts, all I did was sound desperate. Finally, after alot of thinking, I realized I could just write about myself. I ended up writing about a story about myself from when I was younger. The story was funny but serious at the same time and it related to alot of things in my life. I ended up writing, in my opinion, a really interesting essay.

Looking back I definitely should have started my applications earlier. I would have saved myself alot of stress from having to cram everything in all at once. As for my essay, I regret that I spent so much time thinking about how I was going to write my essay, I ended up just overthinking everything and wasting time. I could have written that same essay in a quarter of the time that it took me too if I had just relaxed and stopped worrying about what the colleges wanted.