The Sickness - Senioritis

So this blog is about not being able to focus due to all of the stress, distractions, drama, etc in our lives. It is very true that yes, those things do add to our disability to focus and pay attention and do very much distract us from the lecture we need to be taking notes for or that exam we need to be studying for, but for me, I finally realized what the real problem is- or at least the root of it. I have all those other distractions in my life, but I have always had those distractions and they never hurt me or my work ethic in high school, I fought through them and still managed to excel in my classes. I was walking to class thinking about why I'm so distracted and so NOT inspired to really care about school and then it hit me. Senioritis. I still have that disease. I mean it's deathly contagious, and I knew it lasted at least a year for most people, but it has stayed with me all this time. I can't get well! And it is killing me! My senior year wasn't hard at all, but it wasn't a piece of cake either. I had two AP classes- Calculus and Spanish IV but still I did very well without having to do much of anything. All my other classes were complete jokes. I could sleep in class or just daydream all period, then go home and watch television or whatever I wished to do. Then when the weekend rolled around I could party all weekend because I didn't have anything else to worry about. I was slackin' my way to an A that year, but I can't do that here. And it is finally starting to dawn on me that at Trinity University there ARE NO BLOW OFF CLASSES. Even roller blading and ballroom dance are challenging and are taken very seriously. I need to snap out of it or I am going to regret it. I better get well soon.

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Sleep? What's that?

So it's that time of year AGAIN. The time where students are still roaming campus at 3am, Java City is packed and running out of coffee, and the teachers are starting to notice their students slowly turning into zombies. Yep, that's right the dreaded midterms are here. Time to stay up all night cramming for that Calculus test you put off for weeks, or that project worth 30% of your grade that you decided to start the night before. It's a nasty cycle, because we stay up all night studying, which becomes non-productive after around 2 or 3 in the morning because you're so tired your brain cannot take in any more information. Then you finally go to bed at 5am, which means you'll be getting roughly 2 and a half hours of sleep (if you're me) By the time your test rolls around, you're so disoriented and delusional that it's getting harder and harder to remember everything you were cramming during the wee hours of the morning. It's literally almost impossible to focus on anything. Your synapses are slowed down, your reactions drag, and all you can really think about is how exhausted you are, let alone that derivative problem you need to solve on that CALC test. Scientific studies have also shown that when you go for over 18 hours or so without sleep it's almost like being drunk- the side effects are the same. Yeah that was me today. I stayed up til almost 6am studying for my Calculus midterm. Let's just say I flatlined around noon, and it was downhill from there. I'm still tired and I won't be able to go to bed until at least midnight. And these are midterms. I don't even want to think about finals.