Senioritis
I have been overcome with an affliction so debilitating that I have lost even my motivation to any work at all. While the scrolling marquee sign in the cafeteria may have been worrying me for the past four years that I was contracting this disease, now I know what it is truly like. Senioritis is complete and total stasis. I can't do anything besides sit around, go for the occasional run, talk, and read. The problem is only compounded by a massive feeling of inadequacy that I have as a result of my desire that work be completed coupled with my stronger desire not to do it. Then I just feel worried and useless, which further reduces motivation. It is awful. AWFUL. To top it off, I have to write a 100-page novella, a 4-6-page paper on Brave New World, and take the chemistry AP test and an economics final, among other things over the next two and half weeks.
I'd like to formally welcome you to the club. I first was afflicted with this terrifyingly insidious disease shortly after completing my college essays. At first I experienced a rapid decline in motivation, but over the past two weeks I have slowly but surely been pulling myself out, but too late I fear. Just be thankful it hit you so late, and that you are not going to Out Door School. I hope Penn will still want me.
-Tainter
My first case of senioritis hit 39 years ago. I recovered but I am now having a relapse. It is not fatal but can be very debilitating.
Culpepper, do you mean to say that your overall disposition to teach your students has declined since BC calc last year? That would be shocking. Oh well, I suppose there are worse. I mean, at least you don't claim, like Wilson, that your lack of teaching is part of a post-modern educational reform tactic, whereby students actually teach themselves, and the role of teacher is relegated to one who sits back in a chair and plays Doom.
Adam, do you mean to tell me Miss Culpepper reads your blog? I guess I should start to reread my comments and edit out all the vulgar, insulting comments I hurl and Colin and company. (I should also make sure to not mention all the homework I'm not doing)
I don't know about you Adam, but Wilson's methods seem quite fine with me, as long as he's teaching a senior class.
-Not The Annoying Tainter that bugs Culpepper
There are other old people besides Culpepper reading this blog.
Hmmm... Very interesting. I was certain that it was Culpepper based on the "hypatia" username, but apparently not. I suppose that I was just a little overexuberant in my desire to make fun of Culpepper's lack of motivation to teach our calculus class last year.
But you're right about there being other adults who read this blog. From what I gather, the mean age of the readers here is probably somewhere around 45-50 years.