Junior Theme....winding down

The night before the Junior Theme is due is the night dreaded (and feared) by many. How often do you come across a student who is COMPLETELY DONE with their Theme before the last night? It's pretty rare. In fact, I'd bet that you'd be more likely to come across someone who hadn't even started it. I believe that in today's world, there are an increasing number of procrastinators, due to a number of reasons. One main reason with many subcategories is technology. Whether it be TV, facebook, BLOGGER, instant messaging, or even online shopping, the desire to do the required school work is slipping down a slippery slope. Many students will only do schoolwork when it is absolutely necessary, increasing the list of underachievers to the max. Even students who have always worked hard through most of high school or even through college get burnt out by the time it "really counts". But this raises another discrepancy: why is it that every time we start slacking off and enjoying ourselves we are told we chose the wrong time to do so? When would be the right time to have a little fun and less work? Apparently never.

In my Junior Theme research I came across the information of how the invention of the light bulb has actually increased the levels of depression, a lot because of how that invention allowed workdays to become twice as long. The work day keeps increasing, sleep is vanishing into thin air, and our society is going in a downward spiral. It's not the "global warming" that will be the end of the human race, it's simply the light bulb.