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Rejected Senior Project Proposals

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Senioritis: a term defined by Urban Dictionary as "a crippling disease that strikes high school seniors. Symptoms include: laziness, an over-excessive wearing of track pants, old athletic shirts, sweatpants, athletic shorts, and sweatshirts. Also features a lack of studying, repeated absences, and a generally dismissive attitude. The only known cure is a phenomenon known as graduation."

Traditionally, this disease has been known to strike second semester of senior year, after college apps are completed, and first semester grades are already solidified. However, recent studies have revealed that the condition has become much more wide-spread and contagious. Reports reveal that symptoms are attacking at earlier stages in life- first semester senior year, junior year, or in truly severe cases, kindergarten.

With such a crippling illness, the only logical response by school boards is to pile on more work. That will definitely motivate us, right? WRONG! Nice try.

I mean seriously. It's not as if college and scholarship applications aren't enough work alone, but add a senior project on top of that load and call it one major panic attack. Now that I have completed my first year of college, I look back on my proposed senior project ideas and see only mere products of senioritis. In all of my laziness and lack of motivation, I came up with some pretty poor ideas for my senior project -- ideas Ms. Stelling did not hesitate to reject. For your own personal entertainment, I have compiled a list of some of the best worst senior project proposals.

1. A reenactment of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer."

Plot twist: it's grandpa.

2. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop: a scientific exploration.

3. Collect all stray cats in the neighborhood and donate them to the science department at your school.

4. Teaching a class on how to throw shade.

"Not everyone is good at witty comebacks or talking trash. That's where I come in."

5. Experimental exploration of which laundry detergents kill plants the fastest.

I actually did this as my sixth-grade science project. I don't know why they let me pass.

6. Critical analysis of subliminal messaging in Disney films and the impact they have had on our generation.

Google this phenomenon and cry.

7. A compilation of poems that prove global warming is a myth.

Roses are red

Violets are blue

If the world was actually hotter

This wouldn't be true

8. Organizing a formal debate between the chicken and the egg.

Let's settle this once and for all.

9. A fashion show displaying the many ways in which my lip gloss is poppin'.

10. A silent open mic night.

Rehearsal time is minimal.

11. Initiating a class action lawsuit against all microwave manufacturers.

Not once has your suggested time for popcorn worked out in our favor.

12. A legislative proposal to the president of the United States to enforce a three-strike policy on using the incorrect form of "you're/your."

Punishable by deportation.

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