Who wants to Graduate?

Before entering high school, and even in my first three years, I never understood how people managed not to graduate. Do your homework; pass your classes, its not so hard. This year, however, I am realizing that with all the requirements that are expected of us, graduating is suddenly a lot more of a concern for many people, even those who have done all their homework and passed all their classes. Junior year, we have to compose an argumentative paper. This isn't such a bad thing, as long as you stay on schedule and actually write your paper, you will be fine. A few submissions may be necessary in order to achieve "standard", but overall this isn't such a hard thing to do. With senior year, we step into the world of senior seminar and CE projects. Right off the bat, we are expected to propose a project idea and set a plan that will lead us through roughly two months of time devoted to this project. Besides putting 45 hours into this project, and achieving all of our learning goals, we have piles of other assignments that are thrown our way, just in case we don't already have enough on out plates. Write a reflective letter, which discusses your life and what you plan to do with it in the future. As you do your project, be sure to keep a detailed log of activity you are involved in. You should have "at least ten AH-HA moments" so be sure to tell the story of those in your reflective journals. You won't learn enough just by doing activities for your project, you should be doing research too; actually lets say you have to have 6 varied sources and be able to tell why you used them. There has to be proof that you are learning from this experience, so you should provide us with evidence. Make sure you keep everything, receipts, notes, pictures, EVERYTHING! Nope, we aren't done yet, at the end we should probably stand up and talk about what we learned and all of these components for at least 15-20 minutes, graduation pending on whether you meet standard or not. Is it really a wonder that all of the seniors are just a little bit stressed out? The outcome of one class making the decision as to whether or not you will be able to graduate with your peers? I think not. Every day, I see people come to the realization that they just might not graduate. Don't be one of those people that don't make it, tomorrow is the last day for 1st submissions and I really want to urge everyone to meet that deadline. We are in the home stretch now, and all the hard work will pay off soon, so keep fighting and working hard. You can do it!!!! Good Luck to everyone currently enrolled in senior seminar, as well as to everyone who has next semester to look forward to.