“I spend hours on Facebook every night,” said junior Sarah Goad. “If it wasn’t for that I would be the most productive person I know.” 
    Today’s generation of teenagers are swamped with more responsibilities than ever before. The homework comes in truckloads and the demands from colleges sometime seem impossible, creating a whirlwind of pressures for the average student. If anything could make a student more successful, it would be extraordinary time management. Yet the majority of students find themselves scrambling to get month-long projects done the night before its due, and homework is completed haphazardly the block before.              
    “It’s not that I didn’t have time I just can’t make myself start the homework,” said junior Logan Draper. “I never feel like doing it when I know that I can finish my stuff the block before.”  In fact it seems that more Dunbar students are inflicted with procrastination than the common cold. Many of your classmates will admit to stumbling into school with only a couple hours of sleep under their belts, kicking themselves for procrastinating.             
    “I can’t help it,” said Goad. “I’ll get on the computer to start my homework and the Facebook page is naturally the first thing I go to. I click just to get on for five minutes, and then five minutes becomes two hours.” 
    The lack of motivation that affects the majority of students is easily aided by the numerous distractions in today’s world. Today’s generation is faced with more pressures and more activities to cram into their day than ever before. With colleges and society putting constant pressure on students to be perfect, burn-out is a deadly cause for procrastination. Many teens find themselves exhausted from a repeated onslaught of homework, studying, rehearsals, meetings, or practices. After eleven hour days, homework is the last thing anyone wants to do.    
    “I go to school and work a full day. I don’t want to have to come home and work some more,” said junior Laura Ridgeway. “It isn’t something I can handle every day, sometimes I just want to sleep.”         
    The overwhelming media influence and activities today open up a wide world of procrastination oppurtunities. With the loss of desire to do anything productive and a myriad of new things to do, history would be completely justified in labeling us the procrastination generation.