You know, I've just come to the point in my scholastic career that I just really don't want to do homework. Seriously—no more. Zip, ziltch. I realize that in my senior year in college, I think I’ve done more homework than in any other semester.

I’m not much of a homework person. Since I’m a journalism major class “assignments” do not usually add up to homework. Like if I have to work on a story or I have to work on a flyer or something. If it’s useful towards my major and consists of some kind of writing, I usually don’t consider it homework. I guess it’s because I have to do so much other kind of writing for yearbook and the newspaper that I don’t consider it too strenuous. Let me break down what I consider homework.

1. Papers (English or research) that demand a type of format and a limited number of pages. Whoever thought the longest paper I’ve ever written in my college career would be towards my minor (freakin Art History I). While I do enjoy writing the papers and sometimes the research that goes along with it, this is undoubtedly considered homework.

2. Reading assignments. I hate reading assignments. If you’re a good enough teacher, I should only have to breeze through the book, not read paragraphs over in order to understand it (freakin statistics). I also have a lot of reading for my online English class. I remember the last English class I took was an in-class course and was more of a lecture, where Dr. Pritts stood at the podium and told us what he thought of the story. With my online English class we have a crap-load of reading assignments and must respond to them online. This process if very tedious, and while I enjoy the essays I read, I don’t particularly like the fact that I HAVE to read them. Oh, I gave up on reading along with Art History. If his tests were more geared towards the chapters and not towards memorizing the paintings, maybe I’d feel a need to.

3. Homework exercises, like when a teacher assigns problems from the back of the chapters to work. I get this all the time with Statistics. I understand the need for them, but that doesn’t make them less annoying.

I probably seem like such a whiner to some of you hard-core college kids, but as a student journalist— I’ve got enough to do. I still need to write three more RSO stories for the yearbook and must catch up on the two weeks of reading I completely ignored for my online English class.

I feel like at 21 years old, I just want to start doing what I love and not jumping through hoops to graduate. I understand homework is an essential part (not as important as teachers seem to think) of schooling, but enough is enough. Gosh, it’s going to be so hard to get back into the homework gig in grad school after taking a break for a while to work. Hopefully I’m better at managing my time then than I am now.