Senioritis - Did we have it?

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<p>I am a living example to the younger generation of what not to do in terms of Senioritis, and I try to tell any of them whom I can get to listen.</p>

<p>I was a studious goodgirl, nothing but As throughout school, fine test scores, teachers loved me, I loved school for 12.5 years (incl. kindergarten). I’d whined in high school that it was far too easy and not challenging enough, and begged my parents to send me to private school somewhere (where I assumed I’d get a more challenging education than at my huge Baby Boomer-filled public high school in NJ in the late '60s). But that was not to be. I was a National Merit Finalist (in days when it didn’t seem to be so common) and ranked 5/650 (!), and was accepted to a fine school (currently listed in the CC Top Universities group here) in the second class of freshman to admit women. I was pretty happy. And… I slacked off. I got some pretty unpleasant grades the second half of my senior year, and can remember how my heart stopped when I received The Letter, which I can still quote verbatim:

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“Since you have been accepted contingent upon your continued academic success, please contact this office immediately concerning your third quarter grades.”<a href=“insert%20scary%20face%20here”>/quote</a> So yeah. Time to scramble, find the doctors’ notes that showed I got an ulcer that quarter when my boyfriend dumped me for the class tramp when I wouldn’t sleep with him, write a letter of abject apology, talk to my teachers to learn what I could do to recover in the classes where I had fallen off…</p>

<p>Long story short, I did matriculate and had a decent college career. I am proof, though, that it’s not a good idea to let Senioritis interfere <em>too</em> heavily with one’s “continued academic success”.</p>

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<p>mootmom, Whoowee, what a ride! I felt myself really getting tense there toward the end! Glad you were able to pull it out of the fire! And I understand about the "good girl’ part. Way to go, though, maintaining those standards vis-a-vis BF!!</p>

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<p>My high school had an absurd policy that said you couldn’t pass gym (required for graduation) if you were “unprepared” 20(!) times in the course of a year. I stopped bringing a gym suit with 19 classes to go. The teacher, who made a big deal about checking me off each time as “unprepared,” proferred his theory that my newly-grown beard (in its pre-grey incarnation) was “turning you into a radical.” That wasn’t it - I was just better at counting than I was at sports.</p>