The year goes on, and unfortuantely so do the assignments. While learning is still important and, contrary to popular belief, colleges do in fact look at your final semester of high school as well, a drive to exceed is beginning not only to fade away, but to be brushed aside for other, significantly more frivelous things. For example, just yesterday, I had all of the day after school to take care of homework and studying, but I decided not to, for no reason more than that it would be boring. I will not call it senioritis because it does not only affect seniors, and medically speaking, it certainly is not an irritation, at least to the students. Truthfully, it is just a time where one becomes less and less willing to apply themselves. I do still do homework most of the time, it just takes significantly more drive than. Luckily I have been able to find the drive to do well in most of my classes and been able to utilize it. I know that our English instructor hates the concept of "senioritis", and I do not intend by any means to offend her, because my specific case of apathy does not apply to school work. In fact it probably applies less to school than any other aspects of my life. I believe that my lack of application and care applies more to those surrounding me and what people say about me. I certainly have less of a drive to exceed, as I stated before, but in the end my cares will lean more to that than other people. I am explicitly known to be a particularly discourteous person, which is probably my most significant realm of apathy. If someone doesn't mean much to me, they will soon find out if they aren't already aware. If you have enjoyed what I have to say, or not enjoyed, either way, I do not care.
Scott C.
I love this post simply for the reason that I know exactly what your talking about and exactly how your feeling. For the past four years we have pushed ourselves to our limits trying to be the best students that we could possibly be. We have done every homework assignment, studied for every test, turned everything in on time, and worked out butts off four the past four years at Los Osos. As it is now our eighth semester following the same routine that may of us have grown to hate, we find little motivation or even energy to continue working hard. It seems pointless to many of us when we have already applied to colleges and most of us have already been accepted as well. As our high school journeys come to an end, we must tell ourselves to keep pushing through until the end! I constantly tell myself that it is not over until graduation day, and I continue to push to make it to the end!
ReplyDeleteLexie Cantarero
Way to tell it like it is Scott! I always knew I would be exceptionally lazy second semester of senior year based on stories and expectations of "senioritis". I assumed I would not do homework because I would be too busy going to school events, hanging out with friends, and enjoying my last year as a high school student. Boy was I wrong! I go home from school without any extra curricular activities, leaving me hours and hours of free time to do homework. I try to get started, but Facebook becomes more appealing. I attempt Calculus, but Jersey Shore comes on! It is not about time anymore, it is about lack of motivation. I have lost my drive, I have lost my determination to be the best. Perhaps we should all evaluate the amount of time we are truly spending diligently on homework. In my case, I should probably delete my Facebook.
ReplyDelete~Jacy White
Classic example of being caught between a rock and a hard place...except in most Seniors' cases, the metaphorical rock isn't heavy but we lack the motivation to push it out since strangely it feels comfortable being in that place. As AP students we should always strive to excel but I have always viewed apathy as necessary for it lets us not become too attached to our grades. I believe as long as we don't let inactivity completely take control of the rest of our semester, we'll be fine. Recent research on human behavior has shown that adding fun into seemingly mundane activities can significantly change a person's willingness. So, just a heads up to teachers out there...
ReplyDelete-Lian Coronel
I completely agree and can relate with your state of mind right now. After all these years of school and doing homework religiously, I tend to not care anymore. I do not have the same drive as I once use to, but now I am slowly realizing how fast the year is coming to an end and now is a good time to strive to do my best. Although it's hard, it's time to step it up.
ReplyDelete-Kaylee H.