Austin+O’s+OpEd+Article

Due dates suck! Here I am doing this editorial one late, sorry Geib, and it got me thinking about how much I hate timeframes and due dates. So fellow AMEX students, I realize that due dates are crucial to the success of a business, school, or just about anything that needs to get done but I hate them! To be honest I have had plenty of instances during these formative years where due dates have been missed and assignments procrastinated on until the last second and I have gotten a lot better about conforming to the "mans" way of thinking but due dates are the cause of so much stress!

The stress I feel from due dates is unbelievable, even if I have plenty of time to do something I still can't escape the stress that its expected timely completion brings to my mind! Literally the stress is so great that I MUST procrastinate until the very last second to get my mind off of an impending due date. For example, this op-ed piece; yes Mr. Geib gave plenty of time for this op-ed to be written but I couldn't spend my days stressing over it! My weekend went like this:

Friday : 1. Stress over op-ed 2. Hangout with friends to relieve stress of op-ed. 3. Arrive home about 10 pm 4. Stress over op-ed. 5. Watch those low-budget Netflix movies. 6. Sleep Saturday : 1. Wake up to immediate op-ed related stress. 2. Go work out to get my mind off of it. 3. More stress 4. Hangout and subsequently spend the night at my friends house to remove all stress. Sunday. 1. SLEEP 2. Realize at 10 pm that the op-ed is due tomorrow

So, thats when all the fun began. I FORGOT TO JOIN THE WIKI PAGE! Anyways lets talk about Finland for a second! Finland is one of those nordic countries that I am sure 90% of Americans couldn't point out on a map and guess what? They are "**winning**" when it comes to education. Guess what! Students in Finland have no homework! For the sake of transparency I would like to note that the teacher student ratio in finland is 1:12. So, Finland can graduate 95% of its high schoolers and send 66% to college while giving no homework and giving them only ONE standardized test. Maybe its time America looks across the pond at Finland and takes some notes. Death to due dates!

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