College Lesson Learned #39

#39- If there was one thing that I learned in Boy Scouts, it would be to always “Be prepared.” Seeing as I am never 100% prepared, maybe I should have gone to more than two troop meetings.

A lot of people of our generation are lazy. I don’t mean that they don’t do anything, I just mean that they won’t do something out of sheer immediate convenience or until they HAVE to do something. Because of this we tend to cause ourselves more problems that could’ve been avoided if we spend one extra minute.

I am guilty as charged.

One night before finals I went to the library to write a paper and study. Our campus is a walking campus and the library is conveniently located on the opposite side of campus from my residence hall. So naturally I gather my belongings and head out. I didn’t check to see if I had everything (remember College Lesson Learned #13- Make a list?) That was my first mistake.

I get to the library and pull out my laptop. I started to set everything up but within two minutes it died. I reached for my charger and it was nowhere to be seen. I realized very quickly that it was still on my desk back in my room. So I took the long walk in the icy, frostbitten wind of winter back to my room and retrieved my charger. I returned back to the library.

I pulled everything up on my laptop. I reached into my bag to grab my homework assignment description. My folder was back in my room. Again I made the voyage to and from the library. Finally settled I started typing. I went to grab my book to put a quote down. Can you guess? In my room.

After another trip after my book (which was about 90 minutes after I arrived the first time), I finally had everything…

But by then I was hungry.

Moral: Sometimes in order to be lazy, you just have to do a little work, like checking to make sure you have everything.