<p>I know I’ll catch a lot of flak for posting this, but here it goes:</p>
<p>[Jay</a> Mathews - In Praise of Senioritis - washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/03/AR2008020302355.html]Jay”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/03/AR2008020302355.html)</p>
<p>“I admit that many members of the class of 2008 need no encouragement to party, but a different kind of advice would help even the most playful seniors see the advantages of a less GPA-oriented spring term. Our fear-mongering is bankrupt. The standard bogeyman – they’ll cancel your college acceptance! – is out of touch with reality. Bruce J. Poch, Pomona College’s vice president and admissions dean, says he has done it only eight times in 21 years. Last year, Harvard reversed just one admission, and only 35 percent of colleges surveyed by the National Association for College Admission Counseling did it at all.”</p>
<p>My message here is not to forget about grades or studying this last semester, because we are going to a service academy, not a normal civilian school. All I’m trying to say is don’t worry about last semester’s grades. You can’t change them now and you probably have nothing to worry about. Just buckle down to make sure you don’t get C’s THIS semester - it will be good prep for plebe year.</p>