<p>Recently I've been getting hit hard by Senioritis despite my largest efforts to resist it. I'm taking a very rigiorous schedule at the moment and I'm still doing all the work, homework, and everything. I'm doing just fine except in two AP courses where I am preparing for two AP tests in the courses. AP Physics C and AP US and Comparative Government. AP Physics C I think I'm going to barely get the B this quarter, and in Comparative I'm guessing a C or C+</p>
<p>I'm just getting a bit apathetic with US and Comparative Government, because I'm figuring that I'm majoring in Engineering. So why am I even there? Even if I got the credit for the courses, it'd free up a humanities elective I already planned on filling with a language or gender studies courses. With AP Physics C, I don't plan on taking the credit even if I got the scores to test out, because I'll get a much better foundation from taking the courses in a college setting all over again. Right now it seems to be like taking a introduction to college physics course, where I'm just being introduced to the information I'll just see again next year.</p>
<p>My problem though is that I need to find a way to push myself into keeping my grades up in these courses, but I'm getting hit hard with Senioritis. Any suggestions on how I could perhaps motivate myself to do the work and overcome it?</p>
<p>I already have one college that's stated my acceptance is actually not contingent on my grades, but that its only contingent on completion of my senior year courses. </p>
<p>Even still I've been getting told that I'd have to really screw up to get an acceptance pulled, as in multiple D's or F's. Still, I don't want to find out otherwise.</p>
<p>Try to get rid of as many distractions as you can. That's what I'm trying to do....</p>
<p>Ok, I did really well first quarter (all A's, one B) But this quarter I think I'm going to get the opposite (All B's, one A). That's because of a combination of sheer laziness on my part and increased difficulty in all my classes...Will that hurt my chances at getting accepted?</p>
<p>I'm a junior still but the comment about freeing up distractions reminded me that the writers' strike has done wonders for me. Not being able to follow like five of my favorite shows really frees up my weeknights. Of course that's when I started getting 2x as much homework as before...</p>
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I'm just getting a bit apathetic with US and Comparative Government, because I'm figuring that I'm majoring in Engineering. So why am I even there?
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I'm definitely with you on that one, though I happen to have a strong case of Junioritis.</p>
<p>At least you can justify it.
The only thing I can come up with is, "Aughhh, c'monnnn. Why are you giving me so much homework? We made it this far, can't you find it in your heart to lighten up a little?"</p>
<p>But I get it. I'm using pure reason to get me out of this one: Senioritis is a stupid fake disease to justify pure laziness, and if I were in school for the right reasons, I'd keep trying to understand the material out of an untainted love for learning and each respective subject. </p>
<p>I mean. Of COURSE! That IS the case... right? So. Yeah. XD</p>
<p>Senioritis I think has to do with how hard we have to work. For the last few years I've been getting 5 or less hours of sleep a night just to get my homework done each day. Then I go sleeping 12-14 hours on the weekends due to lack of sleep during the week.</p>
<p>So now, I'm just having a huge desire to balance my life. Its not that I don't love learning, but that I want to love more then just learning.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, I'm going to try to avoid some of the distractions I've had lately. Hopefully that will make me a little more desirous to finish my work and study.
Any other suggestions would be welcomed.</p>
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