Dead Week Student Behavior

It is absolutely astounding how most students, at least those in the Jake Jabs College of Business and Entrepreneurship completely change their day to day lives during the last two weeks of the semester. Not just studying habits, but eating, sleeping and socializing and I believe that I can speak for the students in the marketing department when I say, there is almost nothing we can do about it. Yes, I admit that during my freshmen and sophomore years, I didn't put in all that much effort to school. But as students advance through their years of college, the curriculum gets more comprehensive and requires more effort from each student.

After years of putting in the bare minimum and being unsatisfied with the results, I have changed the way I study for exams and the overall effort I put into my education. I read all the chapters and required articles, I participate in classes and it has been proven to work. However, no matter how much work I put in during the semester, I still can't do anything about my groups having different schedules. It often happens where group members are not able to meet until everybody takes work off and starts to skip class because deadlines are a necessity.

I think the huge problem of procrastination arises because many projects are all due at the same time, but sometimes the curriculum required for each project isn't covered in class until it's almost too late. I have so much time during the week that I could be spending on school work that is wasted because we havent reached a certain point in a class. I believe that standards based education is going to take over at some point in American education. This is basically that once you are competent and meet standards, you could potentially be done with a class and move on with your education. My father works for an education research firm and is implementing standards based education in schools across america. Below are notes taken from a teacher at a high school in Denver after one of his presentations.