Senioritis

A picture to remind me that there’s more to Austin than campus

It’s no secret that I desperately want to get out of school. I’m tired of the culture more than anything - parties, immaturity, people staying up until five in the morning so that when you call at eleven to see what they’re doing for the day, you feel guilty because you woke them up. I’m tired of people still acting like they need their mommies to be able to function at all. I’m tired of people spending their student loans on going out to eat every day because they’re too lazy to boil some water for noodles. I can’t wait to be out of this little tiny apartment and into an actual house where I’ll have the room to move my computer and little television set out of my bedroom. The cats are tired of being here too, already. They’re bored and they hate being limited to my bedroom, a living room, and the bathroom.

I think it’s mostly just walking around and hearing people act like we did back in high school. We all just have cabin fever. This morning Augustus has been whining at the top of his lungs and I have no idea why. Letting him look out the kitchen window helped for awhile but every time someone walks by he gets terrified and jumps down, and then can’t get back up. Sata has been just laying listlessly under my bed, and I know he’s bored and wants to go outside but I can’t let him because of all the weirdos who hang around here and the non-neutered cats who are aggressive and spray all over the place.

And me? I will be very glad when I’m completely done with pop quizzes and dirty carpets and leaky faucets in the bathroom and lack of windows. I always thought I’d love to live in apartments, moving from place to place, never tied down. Then I actually began living in one and it’s killing me (not really - I’m dramatic).

I guess I’m just tired of living the student life. I don’t want to settle down, but I’d like to get out of this area, out of school, and get on with my life. University students, especially the ones here, are so pushy, rude, immature, and self-centered. I get off a city bus and everyone who gets off with me is thanking the bus driver, saying “have a nice day” and all that. I get of a university shuttle and it’s silence. People will yell at a bus driver and then never once say “thank you.” It’s ridiculous. I’m so ready to be done with it. They push in front of you when you’re walking and never excuse themselves, or they bump into you and never say they’re sorry. They’ll talk loudly on their cell phones in quiet areas and expect you to just deal with it.

It doesn’t help that there’s 30,000 of us here. This is a huge university, and you can easily be anonymous or get involved, whichever you want. But either way, you can’t avoid the crowds of girls in shorts and t-shirts and flip-flops, yapping on their cell phone and pushing through, or the frat boys with the stupid polo shirts who walk really closely behind you when there’s no one else around. And it doesn’t help that the university has taken on three major construction projects, cutting off most access routes to the buildings, which increases the crowds along one of the roads so much that you can’t even hear yourself think.

tl;dr? I’m tired. I’m ready to be out of here. Senioritis for the lose.

February 24, 2009 @ 11:32 am .

General — Tags: annoyance, cats, Future, living, school

8 Comments »

1. Except it’s not really senioritis as you have good reasons for being a bit cranky about school. And there’s still so much left to go through!

   The student life doesn’t lend itself very well to comfort and well-being, which I’ve never understood. If you’re supposed to love learning, and be able to cram in as much as possible into your brain and psyche, how do you do that without being comfortable? HOW DOES ONE BUILD AN APARTMENT WITHOUT WINDOWS???

   Comment by Stephanie — February 24, 2009 @ 4:39 pm

2. I am suffering from one of the worst case of senioritis and procrastination myself. I’ve been putting off a lot of my senior seminar course work and sadly, I really just don’t care anymore. I just want to graduate and get out of college. And my sleep schedule is all messed up… I sleep around 3-5am in the morning only to wake up at 7-8am.

   I hate and love being a college student though I’ll be happy when it’s over.

   Comment by Patji — February 25, 2009 @ 3:46 am

3. oh wow. my uni is the exact opposite. ppl watch others stuff when they’re sleeping or at the bathroom. people hold doors all the time. i mean its so infectious. im sorry your school experience has sucked

   Comment by claire — February 25, 2009 @ 11:40 pm

4. Ahhh you’re so close to being done!!! So close. And soon, you’ll be away from it all.

   Personally, I like my university. It’s huge and everything but people are generally nice and because I don’t live in a dorm, I’m not forced to mingle with people when I don’t feel like it… And I’ve met some amazing people outside of the dorms as well so that’s nice. That and my high school years sucked so college seems heavenly now because of that. lol

   Comment by Felisa — February 26, 2009 @ 10:51 pm

5. That’s how I felt the last couple years of school. I was so tired of everything and just wanted to grow up and move on. Hopefully the rest of the year goes fast for you!!

   Comment by Caity — March 4, 2009 @ 4:21 pm

6. I use to say the same things about being in college after my third year. That is, until I took a hiatus from school and realized what I was taking for granted. Maybe I wasn’t ready for the “real world”, but not being in school maybe realize how much I needed to be back in school and appreciate the experience. But that’s just me (I’m back in school, btw).

   Comment by Kiera — March 7, 2009 @ 1:04 am

7. I had senioritis, too. Bad. Homework was the devil. Nights with friends couldn’t be long enough. Drama had no place in my life.

   What I learned? Do less homework. Hang out more with your friends. Don’t wish the time away. Life afterwards is not quite as glamorous as I had imagined!!

   Comment by Jamie — March 9, 2009 @ 10:59 pm

8. God I didn’t know there was a proper term for what I’m experiencing! Haha. I am feeling so lazy with work, trying to focus on the future and what to do after graduating is scary too. So at the moment I am just procrastinating badly and doing things that I enjoy. I think I’m getting lazy because I think ‘hell it’s just 2 more modules, I already got good marks in my other 2′ and I know I shouldn’t but i do!

   Plus me and my boyfriend keep looking at apartments online and saying ‘when we get jobs we can get pet rats and move out and spend the evenings with each other all the time and have freedom and space!’…but this won’t happen unless we graduate with good marks and manage to get jobs! God, senioritis sucks.

   Comment by Helen — March 18, 2009 @ 5:05 pm

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