7 Things I'd Like To See the Administration Do Before I Graduate
The following list is actually a top 10 list in the op-ed section of this week's edition of my school newspaper, but the last three points are only relevant to my school specifically.
1. Organize a Senior Skip Day. I have become aware that about all we seniors do at this point is sleep, eat, procrastinate, and complain that we are still expected to do homework. These are essentially the same things we have been doing for four years. We have relatively few benefits to lord over underclassmen with (mostly that extra hour of freedom a night). The administration could help us out with that and give us a day off. (n.b. Principal’s Day, while excellent, does not count.)
2. Perform weather-altering dances. What good is being full of sage, senior advice, slacking off, and owning a new Bocce Ball set when there is no consistently warm, sunny weather to accompany it? Despite being more than a month into spring, there have only been a handful of days truly worthy my senior spring. I understand that the administration is not omnipotent and that the demand that it try to change the weather is perhaps unreasonable. I have no problem with that. All I am saying is that a brief Sun Dance à la the Sioux Indians couldn’t hurt.
3. Install communal recumbent bicycles. Our school can be a hustle and bustle place, and sometimes we just need to take it easy. The recumbent bicycle is the best possible combination of leisure and efficiency. The recumbent bicycle, no matter how quickly it moves, feels like it is moving at a relaxed pace. Students would feel at ease while rushing to class, and maybe the terminally late kid would show up to class on time one day. Maybe.
4. Create a campus map detailing the quickest routes from place to place. I know that more than one student has tried to figure out, unsuccessfully, what the fastest route from the P.O. to her dorm is. These questions continue to plague us all because one or both people, when testing the paths, can’t resist the urge to beat the other person, and start sprinting as soon as they are out of sight. The administration should therefore tell me definitively which route from the Grill to assembly hall is quickest, and how long it would take me to make the journey if I moved at exactly 2.5 mph.
5. Institute a campus-wide celebration of National Chocolate Chip Day (May 15), National Sea Monkey Day (May 16), or National Bike to Work Day (May 19). I should note that, in respect to the last holiday mentioned, recumbent bicycles can be shipped overnight.
6. Arrange to have gum once again be sold in the Grill; additionally, they should set up a taser system which activates when people spit gum on the ground indoors, hopefully getting some of the people who interfered with our ability to purchase gum in the first place.
7. Establish or make clear the rule for teachers arriving late. More than once my class has stood in front of a door, milling around and waiting for the teacher. Usually we abandon our wait after (sometimes less than) ten minutes, at which point we scatter and run, hoping the teacher will not arrive at that precise moment, jingling his keys and looking at us expectantly. The suggestion that we wait outside until the end of the class period is ludicrous, yet some teachers seem to expect it. It would save both students and teachers a lot of grief if we students knew exactly how long we have to wait before going to check our P.O. boxes for mail for the fourth time that day.
1. Organize a Senior Skip Day. I have become aware that about all we seniors do at this point is sleep, eat, procrastinate, and complain that we are still expected to do homework. These are essentially the same things we have been doing for four years. We have relatively few benefits to lord over underclassmen with (mostly that extra hour of freedom a night). The administration could help us out with that and give us a day off. (n.b. Principal’s Day, while excellent, does not count.)
2. Perform weather-altering dances. What good is being full of sage, senior advice, slacking off, and owning a new Bocce Ball set when there is no consistently warm, sunny weather to accompany it? Despite being more than a month into spring, there have only been a handful of days truly worthy my senior spring. I understand that the administration is not omnipotent and that the demand that it try to change the weather is perhaps unreasonable. I have no problem with that. All I am saying is that a brief Sun Dance à la the Sioux Indians couldn’t hurt.
3. Install communal recumbent bicycles. Our school can be a hustle and bustle place, and sometimes we just need to take it easy. The recumbent bicycle is the best possible combination of leisure and efficiency. The recumbent bicycle, no matter how quickly it moves, feels like it is moving at a relaxed pace. Students would feel at ease while rushing to class, and maybe the terminally late kid would show up to class on time one day. Maybe.
4. Create a campus map detailing the quickest routes from place to place. I know that more than one student has tried to figure out, unsuccessfully, what the fastest route from the P.O. to her dorm is. These questions continue to plague us all because one or both people, when testing the paths, can’t resist the urge to beat the other person, and start sprinting as soon as they are out of sight. The administration should therefore tell me definitively which route from the Grill to assembly hall is quickest, and how long it would take me to make the journey if I moved at exactly 2.5 mph.
5. Institute a campus-wide celebration of National Chocolate Chip Day (May 15), National Sea Monkey Day (May 16), or National Bike to Work Day (May 19). I should note that, in respect to the last holiday mentioned, recumbent bicycles can be shipped overnight.
6. Arrange to have gum once again be sold in the Grill; additionally, they should set up a taser system which activates when people spit gum on the ground indoors, hopefully getting some of the people who interfered with our ability to purchase gum in the first place.
7. Establish or make clear the rule for teachers arriving late. More than once my class has stood in front of a door, milling around and waiting for the teacher. Usually we abandon our wait after (sometimes less than) ten minutes, at which point we scatter and run, hoping the teacher will not arrive at that precise moment, jingling his keys and looking at us expectantly. The suggestion that we wait outside until the end of the class period is ludicrous, yet some teachers seem to expect it. It would save both students and teachers a lot of grief if we students knew exactly how long we have to wait before going to check our P.O. boxes for mail for the fourth time that day.
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