Thinking of ideas and actually committing to them is the worst thing a student has to do in their high school life.
Okay, maybe that was a little over-exaggeration. The actual process is just a rabbit hole of indecisiveness, trial and error, and the actual motivation to write about a topic you probably won’t even like the next day. It doesn’t really help that when you’re constantly changing classes throughout the day, you’ll probably end up forgetting what your original idea even is. Not just that, but most students just don’t care about what happens and are typically more motivated to get out of the classroom than to do hard work that takes time and effort. Unfortunately for them, just thinking of ideas takes needless effort.
Thinking is a lot more difficult than it seems. Not only because you have 50 other things in your head regarding school, but also because of a lack of motivation that people have for things they could not even care about. Besides seeing a decent B- on a paper, there really isn’t much driving force to make people want to do it. With certain projects, it can make it harder to have that motivation because not only is it easier to mess up, but who really wants to make a whole 8-slide presentation on how “Math is actually the most entertaining subject out of the core 4”?
With school work, it’s obvious that most people won’t want to do it because it’s all forced work for approximately six hours, and the only thing on your mind is “I want to go home” and “I don’t want to be here anymore”. Even if you like the topic, it seems to become less interesting because now you’re being forced to do it instead of it being out of passion or general interest.
What people will often forget is that you may need to do extra work, like research and data, to even get to the point of doing the project or whatever you’re planning to do. With research and all, it is a boring process, and it can drag on a lot, causing others to be very unmotivated. If you’re unmotivated, you’ll just end up switching tabs to play “cool math games” and attempt to convince your teacher that it is actually math and not games that have nothing to do with the topic. Depending on your topic, there is a one in ten chance that it is actually a blocked site from Securly that you can’t see, and therefore, have no actual evidence or sources.
Even with sources and all, you have to always put it in a specific format, and for high school, it is commonly the MLA (Modern Language Association) format. Which doesn’t seem that difficult in hindsight, since you can just find a random website, and you get the format, and then you have to put those in alphabetical order. Before all of this, you have to make a work cited slide. If you accidentally delete the websites you use, then it’s “oh well,” and you grab random websites that you think have the same data.
Another favorite part of projects is presenting the project. This requires a lot more time than any other section of the project. Essentially, it requires you not only to like your idea but also to have the ego and confidence to show it off to all your classmates. Since most people don’t want to be judged, they are more likely to do a basic concept that won’t reveal too much about themselves.
After everything is finally done with, you can take that sigh of relief that it is over, even if it is momentary. Those ideas are now just random things that were thought about, and they’re probably thrown in the recycling or taking up space in your notebook. You can now continue avoiding Infinite Campus, let your brain rest after all that thinking, and pretend all of that never happened.
