As I watch my many students maneuver around the remaining assignments from all their classes this term, I am struck by the unflappable though misguided thinking that underpins their approaches. They just don't "sound" capable when they talk about "all they have to do" in "how little time they have left."
It is the way of all students, the way of all procrastinators, the way of all survivors. Not many of my students actually detail how they will really "overachieve" and "exceed even their own expectations" -- instead their words are related to "survival," "hope," and "please God....let me pass" kind of thinking.
One does wonder how Aristotle's peripatetic "Academy" students dodged their assignments, complete with whining narrative, until the last possible conversation.
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