Showing posts with label confirmation bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label confirmation bias. Show all posts

Sunday, April 27, 2008

senioritis and blogger

I understand that this will be the millionth time someone has expounded upon the malady (privilege?) that is senioritis however I am currently incapacitated by it and need to deal with it.

Case #54784533156486479413
age: 18
occupation: student (secondary school)
symptoms: carelessness, a sense of invincibility, college pride, excessive facebooking, naps, reading, very sarcastic writing in scholarly papers, lateness, bad grades, etc
diagnosis: acute senioritis
treatment: electroshock therapy without sedative to re-infuse patient with drive

I have a paper due tomorrow. Tomorrow is the extended deadline too. The thing about this paper is that I have no desire to edit it, thank goodness it is already written. The paper isn't even important. I don't care about the grade at all. I remind myself that ending HS with a bad GPA is bad, and colleges get cranky at you. I am also reminded of something a mean woman once said, it went something like "if you are slacking in your senior year, you won't make it in college." But I think she has confirmation bias. Don't we all though?

The next thing that has been on my mind is a crime perpetrated against me. I was targeted and attacked by blogger.com. I tried to sign up for the mobile blogging feature and I received a reply text message that contained a virus that corrupted my cell phone. I then proceeded to the Verizon store where my phone was replaced while I waited an hour and a half. Am I complaining? You better believe it. 

The positives: I got a new phone, I learned that even reputable websites are corrupt, and I learned that phones could get viruses and you can get antivirus for your phone. Just another reason why I need to get an iphone.