Greatest Slackers in the World

Hey Reader,

Hope your Thanksgiving went well.  I enjoyed the day.  I watched football and ate a bunch of food.  I also went out this morning and bought a bunch of clothes.  Quite a nice Black Friday if you ask me.

This, however, isn’t what I wanted to talk about…the title of “The Biggest Slackers in the World” would make no sense.  I wanted to talk about something I noticed about dorm life during the past couple of weeks.  I have noticed that the closer a paper is to being due, the more people seem to want to do other activites besides homework.

An example of what I called “The World’s Greatest Slacking” can be seen in the lives of some dormmates and myself during the past couple of weeks.   During the couple weeks before Thanksgiving Break, we have been binging for hours on Halo 2–in my case, I definitely should have been doing homework.

This is an important factor to remember about dorm life: when things are due, either you don’t want to do your work or other people are trying to distract you.  I know this from personal experience.  Now, I am not saying WJU is a horrible place because you never get work done.  Quite the opposite; the community is great.  Guys like to play games.  WJU has a decent campus-wide wifi and hardwire network.

My purpose in writing this is to say that discipline is needed in college life–no matter what college you attend.  Work needs to be focused on.  Unfortunetly, I know people who have flunked out of college in part because they spent too much time playing games and not enough time doing their homework.  I don’t want to see anyone end up flunking out of college because of games.  I just want to issue a warning and give some advice that you can use wherever you attend college.  But of course, we’d love to have you at Jessup if that’s where the Lord wants you to go to college.

Grace, mercy and peace,

Mike Kares

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