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I’ve been aging over the past almost two decades with seven hours out of half of the days of the year sitting in a classroom, and now it’s almost over, like the Terminator series.

Don’t quote me on this because I, Eli Vaglica, am writing a blog. Yes, for most of you the thought of someone with no feelings pouring it out onto a platform solely based around the thoughts and opinions of an individual makes absolutely no sense, but I’m here to talk to you about “relatable” senior topics and content.

For the people that know me, I procrastinate… a lot. Now, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that there are other procrastinators in my class and in every high school, but everyone that’s taking their senior year in strides is trying to peak. Try and try as much as I can, I will probably always revert back to my old waiting game ways. I’m not going to lie, the adrenaline from stress that I get from procrastinating can make for some really good completed work, but then again I didn’t even get to eat breakfast today because I was already rushing to complete assignments. It’s only Thursday.

Existence is pain for the poor souls trying to complete school without doing homework. The fact that this is my senior year of high school and I don’t feel threatened by my procrastination problem is slightly alarming. It makes me concerned on the outlook of my future outside of school. Then again I can say without question that I’m not going to be telling my future employer that I learned the basic concepts of cooking or diagramming sentences and that should be a reason for hiring me.

So many of these “life skills” we’re learning, I feel, are inapplicable to our actual lives. I don’t do my homework because I feel I should learn everything I need to at school. If I really need an affirmation of knowledge learned after processing it in class, it’s either a problem with how I learn or the way the teacher teaches.

So yeah, I’m a senior, and I’ve dedicated a lot of time at school, and if grades are what make me a valuable asset or good student, then no, I’m not going to take homework very seriously.

I’m not just a test of knowledge completed at home and I shouldn’t be (de)graded as such.