This week's installment of our new series, Guilt Trip, talks about why we skip our classes, and how we might get out of the vicious cycle.
Blame it on senioritis, but I've skipped more classes this semester than I'd care to disclose. I've never been one to brave the wind, snow, and hail in order to make it to a lecture, but this semester it's gotten a little out of control. These days it's hard to look in the mirror and not see a lazy college senior. "Your homework tonight is to read pages 57-112." "Nice, no homework."
I don't think I'm the only one here. Each week attendance in my seminars and language classes drops, and what was once a 150-person lecture is now as popular as The Office.
I remember going through a similar phase my freshman year and being appalled at my own lack of work ethic. I'm a senior now. Have I made any progress? We used to be machines, powering ourselves through high school and straight into the Ivy League. What's wrong with us? Why can't we just flip a switch and write the two-page paper?
