The break between school years is arguably the best three months in the year for an average student. A lot of parents and teachers are super serious about the fact that knowledge seems to slip during the summer vacation. In the perspective of a strict parent, or even one with common sense, summer vacation should be packed with knowledgeable material and constant studying in order to prevent this "slipping." A student's perspective of summer is different.
Many kids jump in with the mentality of having fun. This is mostly because, right after school ends, we've just finished with finals and exams, and we're completely done with the unbelievable stress that we had to deal with only days before. Exciting plans and rehearsed Instagram posts flood the mind of an average student right as summer vacation starts, and it's only fair to disregard school and work as a whole.
During summer, students don't want to have to worry about anything but summer, but a lot of them, including me, forget about the hellish, wretched assignment that's due on the first day of class. Summer work is usually put off until the late July, early August point of summer. For many teachers, this is exactly what they don't want you to do: procrastinate. However, procrastinating on summer work is actually much more efficient than the latter.
There's really two, almost three options when it comes to summer work: start ASAP and get it over with early in order to get back to "summer behavior," or do it when your back's against the wall and you're running out of time before school begins. A lot of teachers have pop quizzes on the summer work on the first or second days of school, which surely throws a lot of kids off. This is clearly one unfathomable reason to putting your work off until later! The content is fresh in your mind, and you won't be struggling to remember something you completed two months ago. Likewise, your brain will be out of practice considering you took a long break after completing that assignment.
Now, the third option, as crazy as it sounds, is to do a little bit of it throughout the summer, slowly working through the assignments to complete them by the end of the three months. This brings me back to my point about knowledge slipping all through summer. Usually, teachers won't be that unreasonable and give you work that takes three months to complete, so you'll be stretching content and ultimately getting lazy with the work. It'll slow your brain down and the school year will come as a shock to your out of practice brain since actual school will be much faster and have more of everything. it's dangerous to expect less by stretching out the assignment and calling yourself efficient.
Essentially, waiting out until the right time, sometimes what teachers call "too late," will give your brain a nice refresher; it'd be a good transition into the school year. Starting the work a little bit later also gives you a couple months of pure relaxation early. After those couple months, it takes one piece of effort to jump back into school-mode and have an opportunity to transition in. Now, the anxiety of having unfinished work will continuously breathe down your neck, but that's just where you have to reread this article and give yourself some closure. It's legitimately for your best interest to procrastinate.
