The Art of Doing Nothing
Prompt: Is “doing nothing” a good use of your time? Senioritis traditionally emerges during the second semester of senior year. With standardized testing and application deadlines in the rearview mirror, most seniors–myself included–put their academic studies aside to focus on having the best last semester of high school. There’s a carefree nature to the spring of senior year that feels like the prospect of summer vacation–a semester, in other words, of doing nothing. Now that I’m a senior with raging senioritis, I’ve been determined to make the most out of the rest of senior year. Although I haven’t learned much in the classroom, I’ve learned to embrace the contrasting forms that “doing nothing” has taken over the past couple months. In January, I learned that the act of doing nothing could be destructive. Without a clear end goal in mind, the days blurred by. Without schoolwork, I turned to social media apps and into the realm of infinite scrolling. My weekly screen time, previo...