Doomsday Predictions

So, I’m sure you have all heard that supposedly the world is supposed to end in my/our college graduation year, 2012 (or at least there is supposed to be some major psychic shift or something .. trouble with this Mayan predictions is we can’t really ask them what they meant). Well, I’m not talking about that … I’m talking about now.

Like most of my peers, I am afflicted with the lovely ailment referred to as senioritis. On top of that, my teachers (particularly my english teacher) thought it a good idea to set up a negative correlation between seniors’ motivation and seniors’ workload .. it’s actually insane.

<whining about english>

Consider that, in the first place, our AP English Lit exam was last Thursday, so by all reason, the class should be pretty much done or at least switching over to “fun” activities. Yea, we aren’t. At my high school (and by all accounts, only my high school within the district), we are required to submit a senior english portfolio composed entirely of NEW compositions.. in the order of 12 of them. For most of them, we have to submit 3 drafts + pre-writing (as though we actually do prewriting). On top of that, she thought it a good idea to assign us a series of poetry journals. Not only are these of substantially larger quanity than those earlier in the yaer (6, each requiring analysis of 3-6 poems), but they are in the majority due BEFORE the  portfolio. But no, it does not stop there, on top of this we have been assigned to read and keep “a detailed character list” for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. So, in summary, the first day after our AP exam, we have the first poetry journal, 69 pages of Cuckoo, and a check on our senior portfolio progress (theses checks are graded seperately). Also, keep in mind, it is still AP exams .. I won’t be there.. I have AP Physics C, for which I do not feel prepared and won’t feel prepared, despite studying more than I have for any other AP exam. Then the next day, I have AP Psychology.

</whining>

On top of the insane English load and AP Physics C, I have a chorus concert I need to work to prepare for, and a 2 day Enviornmental competition (about which I am less than enthralled) that will wipe out my ability to work on the english portfolio Sunday or Monday of next week, with the portfolio itself due .. let’s see… WEDNESDAY. Oh and on top of this I also feel physically ill.

Basically .. my point is that of my title, I feel doomed plain and simple. That said, I also know myself and having gone through this cathartic excercise would expect that this prediction of doom will go the way of most (i.e. it will turn out false, but its true believers will continue on unphased). We’ll see.

Anyway, if I get through this one, I’ll see you in 2013.

Thanks for listening to my doomsaying,

~Donald Guy

P.S. one other prediction, amongst my HASS classes, I will probably never take another english class proper.