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First quarter, end immediately
Published: Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 11:51am
During my years at Uni High I have suffered more academic pain than I would have ever chosen to inflict upon myself.
I've written papers at 3 a.m., memorized innumerable flowcharts and trig identities, and spent too many Saturday mornings at Siebel or Centennial taking SATs, ACTs, and all other types of junk. Freshmen, sophomore, and junior year were all stressful and challenging in their own respective ways. Even subbie year was a pain (let's not forget the Cutting Edge papers).
I have now entered the final stretch, senior year. I have been told by seniors before me that this is the best year of high school, the blow-off year, the year in which every period is like a free period, and candy and bacon-double cheeseburgers fall from the sky. I am sad to proclaim that all of that is simply false.
Maybe I'm alone in this perspective, but my senior year has run me over as if I were a tiny, scared rabbit colliding with a monstrous, metal-clad Hummer on 26's.
I am overwhelmed by college applications, letters of reccomendation, SAT IIs, calculus (of which I did 87 problems last night), and not to mention all my other classes.
It's true that some nights I have virtually no homework and am completely unproductive. But the next night I am flooded by a sea of assignments and deadlines that make me wish I hadn't taken time off the day before.
Senior year is not what I expected it to be. The whole process of finding what kind of college you want to go to, trying to figure out a major, writing essays and filling out applications is not only draining but incredibly time consuming. Also, calculus homework has completely consumed my life. It is really hard (just in case anyone was wondering).
My goal for now is to make it through tomorrow in hope that the end of the quarter will be an end to my nightmare and signal the beginning of a less intense homework and college-application flow.
Good luck to everyone in calc on the test tomorrow (especially third hour), and to those not in calc, good luck in your other endeavors.
Comments
Yes, what a pain.
I agree completely. Not only has my senior year been far less than spectacular, this past week has been a huge pain in my rear end. Teachers need to learn not to cram all of these tests and projects into the last week of the quarter. If they planned their time better, they wouldn't have to rush tests and papers at the end of the quarter for the sake of quarter grades.
Indeed. I hate the ends of
Indeed. I hate the ends of quarters, because all the teachers try to finish the "important" things in their classes... then it all adds up and crushes us. Thankfully, it's not bad for me this quarter; the only major thing I have to do is take the Calc test (but that's REALLY major... I'm terrified).
In some ways, senior year has been a bit easier. This year, I've actually had enough time to have something resembling a social life. But I'm starting to realize that other things are suffering as a result. I am in Seminar this year, and I'm supposed to have read almost 2 books by now, and I'm only about thirty pages into one. And trying to run a club and have a job on top of everything else is incredibly difficult. I don't even have time to fill out reports of my contacts, to get paid for them.
But still, I'm very reluctant to give up the "fun time" in my life. It's good for the soul, and is probably one of the only things that keeps me going. I'm going to have to start minimizing it, but I'm hoping that these next weeks at the beginning of 2nd quarter will have light enough workloads so that I can put all that off for a little while.
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