{"id":1853,"date":"2015-09-17T11:45:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2015-09-17T07:50:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:50:44","slug":"jen-put-down-that-latte-youre-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/09\/17\/jen-put-down-that-latte-youre-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen: Put down that latte, you\u2019re late!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>If you\u2019re like 99% of the human population, you have been late to something at least once in your life. Being late is just part of the human experience. I\u2019ve been late for many things: class, birthday parties, going across the street to grab breakfast in the morning. Being late is just part of my DNA. Multiple times, I\u2019ve kept my friends waiting five, ten, even twenty extra minutes for me to meet them to hang out. Not only am I a chronic late person, but I\u2019m also a chronic procrastinator. Whether it\u2019s putting off homework, doing my laundry, or even just getting out of bed, I will put anything off until the last minute. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>So what happens if you are late to class? What happens if you\u2019ve put off that essay until the night before it\u2019s due? Here are some tips from a perpetually late person to help you deal with the stress that comes from tardiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Relax: <\/span><span>Okay, this one is pretty self-explanatory. There have been many times when my stress level has gone from 0 to 100 because of me being a procrastinator. I\u2019ve left everything from worksheets, to fifty page readings to four page papers till the last minute. I\u2019ve gotten extremely overwhelmed and felt like it was impossible for me to get everything done. In times like these, I remember to take a breather and to calm down. I admit that it was my own fault that I procrastinated and then I get straight back to work because I have no time to give myself an intervention.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Don\u2019t Make Excuses: <\/span><span>When you\u2019re currently sprinting to your friend\u2019s birthday party because you\u2019re running twenty minutes late, you\u2019re probably thinking of a great excuse. How convincing and elaborate can you make your excuse so people think you\u2019re telling the truth? It\u2019s always best to throw out any excuses and tell the truth. Instead of trying to tell your friend a false but creative reason about why you\u2019re late, it\u2019s better to just say you watched a few too many episodes of <em>House of Cards<\/em> and didn\u2019t keep track of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Remember, it\u2019s not the end of the world if you\u2019re late: <\/span><span>Okay, so you\u2019re five minutes late to class. It\u2019s fine. Don\u2019t freak out about being just a few minutes late because it might be the case where either the professor is late as well or you\u2019re coming into class with some other students whose alarms didn\u2019t wake them as well. Nobody is going to take you to court because you\u2019re late to class. Unless it\u2019s a mock trial class.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Tardiness happens. When it does happen, you just have to remember to relax and it\u2019s not the end of the world. Everyone is late at one point in their lives, take it from me, a girl who was thirty minutes late to her own birthday party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/comblog\/files\/2015\/09\/Squidward-Late-Percentage.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/comblog\/files\/2015\/09\/Squidward-Late-Percentage-300x180.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1854\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/comblog\/files\/2015\/09\/A-Queen-is-never-late.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/comblog\/files\/2015\/09\/A-Queen-is-never-late-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"A Queen is never late\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1855\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re like 99% of the human population, you have been late to something at least once in your life. Being late is just part of the human experience. I\u2019ve been late for many things: class, birthday parties, going across the street to grab breakfast in the morning. Being late is just part of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/09\/17\/jen-put-down-that-latte-youre-late\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jen: Put down that latte, you\u2019re late!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44410],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}