<p>Senior, being passionate and working hard in classes are not the same thing. One can be passionate about what they do outside of class, and still do only just enough to get by in their classes - all it means is that they need to pick better classes (or that they were pushed into a class b/c it was a core requirement and actually see no value in taking the class, ahemhistory). I’m tired of people assuming that those who don’t work hard in school are lazy or otherwise inferior. If you can find a way to be lazy and still do well, then I say go right ahead - it saves time for more important things, like being “passionate about learning” and “bettering the world, whatever.”
Of course, this is coming from the extremely biased viewpoint of someone who has a profanityload of history homework that she doesn’t want to do and doesn’t see the point in doing right now. I need better history teachers, mine are failing at making me believe this stuff is important hahah.
I do see your point in “it’s not worth it” though, and I (and probably everyone else too) know in my brain that it really isn’t worth it to stress out about this, I just can’t help it. It’s like, the logical part of me knows that I shouldn’t read CC posts because they just make me feel bad about myself, but I do anyway haha!</p>
<p>Cardinal, thanks for that post 
It only half makes me feel better though, I was really unsure about whether or not my essay was too braggy when I submitted it. It’s really hard not to be braggy when you’re trying to give examples to back up what you say about your personality, though.</p>