Senioritis. This was something that I always heard the seniors talk about but didn’t think that it was true. Now I’m sitting at home every night thinking of what I was assigned that day and what doesn’t actually need to be done. I am in my first AP class this trimester and it couldn’t have come at a worse time. In an AP class the teacher doesn’t assign work and then collect it. She gives you ten packets and says that they will help on the test and maybe she will collect one of ten in the future. With no dead line on anything, there is no way a senior is about to do those packets. This sort of thing happens in every class. I do the majority of my homework in school on the day it is due (in one particular class I do it in class on the day it is due, turn it in, and get full credit on it. But that’s 3rd hour). My point is that if you think senioritis is a myth, then you obviously haven’t been a senior.
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I only partially agree with Hurite because I’ve had a degree of senioritis since freshman year. It has just been getting worse and worse. This year I often don’t even think about doing my homework until at least ten o’clock, except for these blogs because these are due by twelve o’clock. I also have been more and more prone to leaving homework until the hour before it is due. But I will have to change for next trimester because I have pre-calculus and the majority of students have not been doing too well in that class. I think the reason senioritis is such a vicious disease is because whenever I begin my homework the idea of college begins to creep into my head and I just think to myself, “What is the point of doing this ten-point homework assignment? I’m going to have at least a few good options for college whether I do this assignment or not.” Now, if you are fighting to get into colleges you desperately want to get into I understand but that idea has to creep into the minds of those people as well. Hurite is right on the money when he says that AP classes are also a factor because they are college courses in which students don’t turn in very much homework they just learn the material and take the test. This has been working out for me so far. We’ll see how Pre-calc goes. Senioritis is not a myth, it is all too real, so BEWARE!
haha that sucks nick, being smart comes at a price.I agree with senioritis and the theory behind it, but the truth is I feel I didn’t want to school ever my sophomore year. I just hated it seemed that year? Being a freshman is no fun for the guys either. The year all our girls in our grade stop talking to us until maybe sophomore, maybe junior year again for the most part. Junior year I didn’t mind coming to school yet again, but I felt like a lot of what we did just had no meaning to me, and didn’t really want to be bothered with it. Although not that tough to overcome, the ACT made that year lame as well. Now as a senior I personally have too easy of a schedule for this trimester, so there’s really no reason to ever skip, if I did that much Id feel terrible, and so unaccomplished….I’m saving my skipping days for third trimester, when its just too out outside, and school is so far down the priority list. It’s gonna be great.
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