Student’s Indolence
Flores, J. P.
Malayan Colleges Laguna

Abstract
Students these days have different reasons to escape listening to their lectures in class. I also experienced this since high school. But when I put myself in college, I observed that it’s a lot more different how students be lazy than in high school. Assignments, projects and researches came and became harder. But, students nowadays still disregard these works and they don’t know that this can affect their lives in the future.
Some need some more sleep because of cramming overnight. Other students play their own video games, others throw parties and do other things instead of studying and doing their homework first. Some think that they don’t need to study because they already know what would be the professor’s lecture to them. Some student’s do not like what they are studying for its really hard for them. Some do not think about their future, they just care that they are having fun while studying but not really learning things. Some are forced to study because it’s their parents’ dream to finish a particular course. And others can’t concentrate studying because they have their own personal problems to think and they can’t just leave that problem behind. These reasons are one of the factors that students often fail in their specialty of education. If this indolence continues in the future, a nation’s economy may be affected to the point that it will decline because more unemployed people will be added every year instead of finding some work to sustain their needs. One can’t always stay indolent, he or she must practice averting it or else it will also impact on him or her in the future.
Student’s Indolence
Every student has its own rises and falls. When I was in high-school, I get excited every time the first day of school comes. But every second and third quarters of the school years, I really tend to be lazy in learning, therefore leading to lower grades than the first quarter. And even though I exert more effort in studying in the last quarter, I didn’t turned out to be one of the honorable students of my batch. Now that I’m in college, I can’t say that this will not happen again. Our second term entered and I can say that some of my classmates from last term have really changed their attitude in studying. One replaces games to studies, another one is just not interested in studies and etc. Why do these students have to be indolent when they have a great opportunity ahead if they just work hard to achieve it? Student’s nowadays have different alibis and reasons for being indolent that can lead to self-deterioration.
We students have different undertakings every day, assignments, projects, researches and the like that some of it had to be done overnight, therefore leading to sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is the restriction of sleep below the level of basal sleep need (Dinges & Lim, 2007). Most students in college level experience this than high school students. This causes disorientation for the student that can also lead to panicking and mentally-blocked person, especially to those whose classes are in the morning. This is one reason students are not interested in the lectures taught by a professor. Students perhaps focus more on getting more rest than listening to lectures. Based from what I’ve observed on my classmates, they do things that are not really significant to their studies like playing games, watching movies etc. These distractions have really been successful in diverting students from their focus which is studying because they are attracting to the student which are mostly game-minded at these times. We can’t blame the creators of these distractions because what really happens is that students do not know that they get addicted to it often that they would play it the whole time making them avoid works that are mentioned in the first place.
Students often have this pride that they think one subject is so easy that they don’t have to study it, but they’re really wrong. Courses or subjects will get more difficult as they move on to the next stage of their specialty program. For example, quizzes will be done the next day, but instead of studying, these lazy students just set aside reviewing and do something else. But we can’t also say that this is only a bad thing because maybe it’s only the student’s mind-set to be positive for the reason that the subject is really hard that they have to pass it, or some are just really advance thinkers that they really don’t have to study it, but again, most students don’t feel to study because they’re just too lazy.
Some students do not think about their future, making studying not a serious thing to accomplish. They always think how this should be fun to the point of not being academic anymore. For most students, they get bored at a “lecture only” class because according to Hannah Richardson (2010), research suggested that university students have average attention spans of just 10 minutes, and then, they are to sleep or do something else that they don’t know that they are already distracting the whole class. Gossiping with others about what happened to each other is one example of it. These lazy students doesn’t even care about what other students can be in the future, they can influence those good ones and that’s one problem that instead of making the lazy students pass, those bright students could also be one of them and fail and it can repeat until they can, a reason that laziness can’t be stopped, but only prevented.
Lazy students think that they have more time doing other things than studying. One of the most obsession of students these days is getting addicted to social media sites. Facebook and Twitter are the most common used by students nowadays. According to Naizabekov (2012), one active SNS (Social Networking Site) student user can suffer procrastination because instead of managing its time for paper works, projects and reviews, it all goes to chatting, tweeting and re-blogging posting stuffs online. Furthermore, this lack of necessary time management skills may lead to less effort shown towards their academic tasks resulting in a greater chance of cheating, and, therefore, being accused of plagiarism.
Forced studying is also one cause of student’s laziness these days. Their parents want them to finish a particular course in college even though it’s not their interest. And because the student doesn’t want to be obliged, the consequence is the student may rebel against his or her parents and do whatever he or she likes, anything aside from studying that course he or she is supposed to finish (Cause of Student’s Laziness, 2013). As my father told us, “Kids, you have to study seriously because knowledge is the only heritage that I and your mother can give to you.” Because Education is one parent’s “hand-me-down” to their child, obviously, there is a minimal chance that their children will waste it. This can be considered as a positive or negative effect depending on how good is the relationship of the student to its parents or guardian that makes their kin go to school.
Most students nowadays, even though still young, experience different relationships like “puppy love” and the like causing them to prioritize their loved ones and not their study because asking them which of the two does he or she want the most, most probably, he or she will answer his or her loved one. These are problems that various teenagers encounter as part of their maturity. These can’t be denied because most adolescents practice these problems before entering adulthood. They may affect the stability of the live lectures. Some students took it as self-maturity stage, but there are also students who are devastated by the problems they are facing so, they must be wise in solving their problems or else, it may affect the activity of the course causing them to fail. (Silvy, 2012) If lazy students still continue to get indolent, how will they be getting their dream jobs? They more likely to fail which must be prevented. Failing students will not only disappoint their parents because of they’ve worked really hard to sustain their tuition fees, but also, they will be contributing to the nation’s unemployment rate and declining economy. According to Katie Gupwell (2013), HR reports claim that one in five students are now leaving university without work experience, which seems to severely limit their chances of gaining a successful career. As employers seek great skills, ambition and energetic drive in their future employees, it appears some students fail to make the mark with their lack of work experience standing as a major hurdle on their final leap to success. It’s really hard to get a summer job these days because every job has the requirement of a past job experience. But, let’s face it, every student has more free time than they have scheduled for study, so probably, there are no excuses for a lack in effort in studies (Gupwell, 2013). Students these days have their own reasons to escape learning, but is learning a disadvantage? To conquer these urges in being lazy, appreciate what will education and knowledge will give us. Students must have a time management to prioritize what to do first and finish early. We must always think about the future that we are going to give our family a good life if we had a good job. Be wise in solving problems and always be happy and motivated to be an active student. Remember that we are lucky because we had this chance of being educated so let’s not waste it, there are others begging to get this chance so start studying.
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