When laziness becomes detrimental to life
Since second semester began, I have become the laziest person ever. Every day after school I used to go to the gym, do all my homework and then maybe watch some TV. But this has all changed, especially since I just had my last February break in my life. This past week I have done perhaps a total of two hours of homework without having a TV show playing on my computer. I have not gone to the gym since last Saturday because I’m too lazy to drive to BSC.
Although I enjoy being able to watch TV for the first time in my high school career, I do feel a sense of guilt when my teachers ask questions about the past night’s homework, because it is clear I’m not the only one in my classes who have adopted this life of indifference to academics. It must be hard to be a senior year teacher during the second semester, they see us slacking off. They know we do. But the way I see it is, I’ve worked my life away at this school, and the next four years of college will be filled with all-nighters at the library, I need these last months of school to enjoy being a teenager!
So I suppose what I’m trying to say is, work hard now as underclassmen because second semester of your senior year can be used as a time to enjoy high school like they do on television and in the movies.
True Life: I watch far too much tv
Today I handed in my last analytical English essay of my high school career, which happened to be on the extremely convoluted The Sound and The Fury. Although I spent hours labor overing it, I wish I had spent more time on it now that I realize that’s it. It could have been as beneficial as my IRP was last year if I had put the time and effort into it, yet my “senioritis” got in the way. I failed to put in the effort to show off my analytical skills that I did on my Lolita essay.
With all online streaming of every television show, I find myself locked in my bedroom waiting for One Tree Hill to load on the browser. Since discovering online streaming, the number of tv shows I watch has increased at a staggering pace. I used to follow only a few shows: Gossip Girl, The Hills, Project Runway, and a few other random shows. Here’s a sampling of the shows I watch on a weekly basis:
1. October Road
2. Grey’s Anatomy
3. One Tree Hill
4. Life of Ryan
5. The Soup
6. Best Week Ever
7. Private Practice
8. Celebrity Rehab
There are a few more that I watch online, but with Netflix my ability to have 3 discs of a television series sent to me every other day has lead to my obsession as well. It took me a month and a half to watch the first 3 and 1/2 seasons of Grey’s Anatomy with the help of a friend’s DVD collection of course. But I find myself re-watching Arrested Development and Daria episodes a few times a week. With the reawakening of old TV shows that were robbed of airtime such as Arrested Development, Daria, Popular, and My So-Called Life I find myself sitting in my basement or my room watching an entire season in a day and a half. Of course I now avoid homework but that is why vacation will be so beautiful.
A week of television to wind-down from the exorbitant amount of work I had this week will be a nice change of pace to the misery that is high school. No just kidding, school is fun sometimes.
Is it just me or was Wednesday’s assembly a broken record?
My first impression upon hearing about what Wednesday’s assembly would talk about was positive, but once I sat down in the auditorium my opinion changed.
First off, the assembly should have been separate for each grade because having second semester seniors and juniors in the midst of their history thesis discussing stress seems unfair. Juniors are freaking out about the SATs and all the massive amounts of assignments they have; seniors are into college or at least done with their applications. I know my views on stress and pressure at the high school have changed from a year ago, but I also have more insight into that as a junior I would not want to hear about.
Furthermore, every group needs to take responsibility: teachers, parents, students and the colleges. It is not one groups fault, but if I hear one more teacher say do not take an honors course if you do not enjoy the subject I will actually scream at them. Stop over-simplifying it, that’s not how we can solve this. Actually we can’t solve the stress issue. It’s a permanent aspect of life when attending high school in a ton full of well-educated parents.
Aside from what I’ve already mentioned, the representatives of the student body could not have been far enough from accurate representations. Maggie lies. She cares about the name of her college, she applied early decision to any Ivy League university. Then there’s Stef who made interesting points that were definitely different from Maggie’s, but honestly, just because I hate the college process(who enjoys filling out applications or describing why you want to attend such and such college?) does not mean college is not for me.
Where were the boys in this panel? Where were the juniors? Yes, I understand the purpose of the assembly was to get the conversation started but there was barely enough time for student responses! Let’s face it, the battle over stress will never end. It is essential to success and why complain if we will all be “so well prepared” for college after WHS?
Leave Britney (and Heath) Alone
I can’t deny how I enjoy reading trashy tabloid magazines that tell the usually falsified accounts of celebrities downfalls and their crazy behavior. But there comes a point where people just need to leave them alone. For example, how much of an effect does the media have in Britney Spears’ worsening mental health? A fair amount, anyone under such constant scrutiny would end up in a psych ward twice in one month. Just leave her alone already, maybe then she could work on getting better and getting to spend time with her kids.
Then we have the tragic case of a video of Heath Ledger at a party at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood where he was allegedly doing drugs. ET and The Insider aired a preview to the exclusive video the day before they were going to air it. The preview was edited to exclude parts of Ledger talking about how he used to smoke five joints a day but since he has had a daughter he quit. The latter part was edited out.
But for once, the Hollywood community spoke out against the Insider and ET for trying to air such an incriminating video of a star whose death was tragic. The celebrity news shows shelved it. How great is that public relations’ companies of major stars said they would never have their clients speak to the two shows ever again if they aired the video.
Plus, the family is grieving. Hollywood and the media needs to stop speculating drug use and reasons for the death and solely mourn the death of a talented actor who died far too early.
