HOMEWORK!

Is your homework a chore or a reflection of you? Do you beat deadlines? Or break yourself to it? Racing the sun or waiting for another wave to come?
Homework is one of the necessary evils of being a student (Lunsford and Collins, 2003). Assigning homework is one of the ways that an instructor uses to measure students’ progress in the course and to test one’s knowledge of the information that is taught or will be taught in the class. Some instructors seem to use it as an assurance that they have “taught” the information to the students. Many students who are aware of these ideas about homework, tend to treat it as a chore-putting little or no effort into it. However, the way students treat or do it not only reflects how they operate as a student but also as an individual. When a potential employer has to decide whether to hire you or not, your ability to complete the demands will always be one to be considered. The way a student handle homework in college often indicates the way homework is handled on the job. For instance, your grade in class is determined by the quality of homework that you do and can be a significant part of your final grade for the course. Actually, many students can prove to an experience where the grade from homework made a difference in their final course grade then later into the final GPA for the student’s major. Those final GPA shows up on resumes and job applications and this would suggest to the potential employers how homework is done in school as a key factor in determining if the student will do his “homework” on the job when hired.
When a quality homework is done, the next thing to do is to pass it on time.
Learning to pass your homework on time is one of the helpful skills that college students can take with them into the world of work. In traditional sense, although the workforce does not assign homework to its workers, many jobs that need to be completed or warrant attention necessitate that they should work with deadlines. Though deadlines encountered by students at school may be different from the deadlines of the workforce, the importance of meeting those deadlines is the same. In addition, failure to meet deadlines on the said worlds can subject oneself to reprimand. To illustrate, students form a contract with the teacher and the university when they enroll in class. The said contract requires that student should complete the requirements set by their instructor in an exact deadline to receive credits for the course. Likewise as a student risk termination in classroom if deadlines are not met, so does in the workforce. When student fails those deadlines, the student breaks the contract with the instructor and the university and objectives of the course. With this, instructors are left with no option but to fail the student and leave the university to terminate student’s credit for the course. This goes to show that developing good habits of passing your homework in time will aid good performance and position as future participants in the world of work.
So get your homeworks done with heart and bounded by deadlines.

by George C. Bernardo