Senior Rant

As I approach the end of my career as an undergraduate, I find myself suffering tremendously from the old disease we call "senioritis." I could have easily graduated summa cum laude, had I put my nose to the grindstone and bothered to apply myself in class this semester. As it is, I'll probably make all Bs and graduate magna cum laude or cum laude. I just don't care enough anymore. My priorities have been family, friends, political activism, school, and work, and the only one I'm doing especially well with is the "friends" category. I'd rather have a happy, social, mediocre last semester than remember the end of my BA experience as holing up in my room alone reading, writing, etc. Instead of finishing my paper that's due in three hours, I am blogging. Also, it seems like everything the university does at this point pisses me off to no end. First and foremost, I am irritated that we have classes during "dead week." If you go to class and have assignments, it is NOT a dead week! As my friend Gradon so eloquently put it, our "dead week" is more accurately described as "mortally wounded week." It also pisses me off that the university does not allow student groups to use university facilities during dead week. The Young Democrats have an obligation to hold our elections, and having to do this off campus, or break our Constitution and do it at the beginning of next semester, GREATLY complicates things. I'm also irritated that the university requires the grades of graduating seniors to be in before Tuesday at 2 PM or Wednesday at noon, and nobody seems to know for sure which one it is! Even the professors are out of the loop. If I don't get to walk the stage because the administration can't clearly communicate what it wants to the faculty, heads will roll.

Also, I am very hungry, as I haven't eaten since 7 AM, and I can't justify leaving the computer lab to go eat until I've finished this fucking comparative politics paper.

Wow...this is the most pessimistic, uninteresting blog post I've ever published. o.O

Update: I actually did graduate summa cum laude. I was clearly in a terrible mood when I wrote this.