Falling into a downhill pattern

When the New Year rolled around, many students made their New Year’s resolutions to do better in school. However, with the third nine weeks coming to a close, I find that most of those students have forgotten all about their resolutions. Students overwork themselves and after a while, they give up or just become lazy.

At first I could tell that these students tried to keep up with their school work, but lately I have noticed that they forget about homework or just do not even try. Students have more and more zeros on their grades and it is hurting them in the long run. I have heard some students say that one zero will not hurt them that bad, but if you think about it, what if you need just five points to make a B and you took a zero out of five three weeks before?

I honestly do think that we as students do try to keep our resolutions of doing better in school but after a while we grow bored of the same thing every day. Food, school, homework, then whatever we do for fun after. I know that as a teenager I like to have fun and homework is not the ideal way to have fun. Sometimes we even have other things that get in the way, and after a little bit of time, we grow tired of trying to balance everything and give up. If we could just learn to balance things better I think that we would keep our resolutions of doing better in school.

You can always separate the students who try, the students that tried but grew tired of all the homework they were given, and the students who show up to school only because they have to. When the new quarter starts up, I know I will hear and see students trying to make up for giving up halfway through the semester, but the same pattern will once again show up. I feel as though this pattern is a silly one but no matter how hard I try not to notice it, it seems to appear just after midterm every single quarter. I know I will try hard to keep my resolution going into the last quarter but the question is, will everyone else?