Top 25s and the Senior Project

Lately I have been actively posting on the forums at D3swimming.com trying to give a voice to my own team, Luther Swimming and Diving.  These forums talk about subjects ranging from high school studs to possible coaching opportunities for graduates.  But the first thread that really caught my attention was about the Top 25 poll.  The poll is facilitated by the folks in charge of CollegeSwimming.com, a website that delivers news from all divisions of college swimming.  It is headed by the coach of Carthage College, I believe.  Anyway, the polls hold no real value for D-III teams due to many reasons.  With there being well over 100 schools who sponsor both men's and women's teams, it is nearly impossible to compile a realistic poll based on duel meets.  And on top of that, it is voted on by the coaches so naturally they would want to give the most points to their own team, right?  I posted my opinions on the topic and came under fire from some and seemed to be praised by others (although I still feel like they were backhanded comments because I couldn't tell if they were sarcastic).  So naturally, I started posting more often.  Sometimes intentionally playing devil's advocate, but mostly speaking my mind.  And as I dove deeper into the threads, I found out that most of these posters are not swimmers at all.  They are mostly graduated alums of schools still living their glory days through this thread.  

The ironic thing about it is, I am reading all of these posts instead of focusing my time on my senior project, which I have put off for the whole first semester and J-term.  I am running into the same problem I have always faced when it comes to doing my homework.  I don't want to.  I mean right now I am in the library and all I can do is download widgets and publish a blog that no one will ever see.  It's just I find no sense of urgency in schooling.  I used to think (and still do to a degree) that schooling doesn't matter nearly as much as developing social skills and 'street smarts'.  So that transfered into me never doing homework in my pre-college life because I was too busy gaining this social awareness.  So now I make weak attempts to do homework.  But most of them stop at the point I am at now.  I get to the library, do part of an assignment and take a break.  I don't even know where I am going with this anymore.  Maybe that means my break is done.  Hopefully I won't be back on, but for some reason I think I will be.

"The Past is A Grotesque Animal" -- Of Montreal from the album Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?