Academics vs. Intramurals: Why School Spirit Can Be Too Much

     I sit here right now, writing this as I hopelessly wait for my English teacher to arrive. It's been almost half an hour and most of my peers have abandoned ship and left a long, long time ago. Instead of running off myself and landing myself in the "Gulag", I am sitting here writing this post - the very first of my own, personal blog. Really, this is going to be about what's currently happening to me right now.

     You see, as I right this right now, the kids have just finally returned from our school's "Strongman" competition: One of our main school-spirit events this year. I have lost 30 precious minute of my schooling time to an event that does not affect me positively in the slightest. Not to say that these functions to do not benefit our school, both in culture and in academic efficiency. It's just that when it takes away from already established time that I had already been prepared to follow that I start to get annoyed. Maybe you might think that I'm just acting childish, but it really does affect me. Maybe it doesn't affect me practically, but it's the principal that is a big deal. I am here to learn. If when you take that away from me, why should I even come?