A Pretty Valid Excuse

                As a high school student, I found that this would be pretty interesting to think about, not saying that high school is stressful, actually I am, because it is. This article is related because it shows that humans will make the “easier” decision when they are under stress. This contradicts most schools because with those teachers that think their class is the only one that you have and give large pieces of homework due the next day. I do not know about you guys, but it really stresses me out so I do not do my homework as well as I could have.

               Of course this does not mean I do not procrastinate, and contrary to popular belief that procrastinators are just lazy, we believe that we are avoiding the stress of our workload. This is also not including the amount of standardized tests we have to take in our own free time, and those evil teachers that give a test that takes the entire class period then gives a large homework assignment. With stress, these choices may not affect you in the short run, but in the long run, it would affect you pretty badly.

                I know that in the article it says that stress should not affect the results of a decision too much from the experiment of the money making thing. I think that this was because it was not on a large enough scale for it to matter too much. The percentages did not vary too greatly and there was not much lost, only a quarter to gain, so I think that the people with the model based learning did not put their full intelligence to the test and decided to, sorry, “yolo” it. On the other hand, if these people paid fifty dollars as an entry fee and had a chance to win a million dollars, I am sure that the differences between the two would have been much greater, because it would have a larger, more profound effect on their life. Since all teachers and parents ever do is tell us how much our grades and choices will affect us the rest of our lives, it honestly does not help the matter of our stress too greatly. In fact, by telling us this and putting on greater due dates, it may be actually harming us. Just keep in mind that most of this is speculation and as a high school student, I am either too lazy to do this or do not have enough free time to test this.