Hey, you, yes you. I know you’ve been drooling on your desk for the last six-and-a-half hours and we probably woke you up from your nice slumber by slapping a newspaper on your desk. But since you happened to turn to this page, pay attention for once.

If you can actually remember a good five hours of today, you can move to a different story. This story is for those students who misbehave constantly and whose last report card was filled with Ds and Fs because they just can’t pay attention. If you’re that student then sit down, be quiet and read.

Some students just stop caring about their grades and education. You have your head on your desk, music in your ears, oblivious to the world around; well, unless you’re given the chance to talk and make jokes.

You don’t care that you’re using the seven hours of school to sleep or practice for you future career in comedy, but time you waste when you’re a student could lead to a life that gets you nowhere.

Let me break this down for you because I know you’ve had a long day and can’t focus long enough to do it for yourself. One, by not paying attention, you’re hurting your chances of getting into college.

Now I know you’re unique and any college should be lucky to have you, but what they see is a student who obviously doesn’t pay attention and who doesn’t honestly care about their education.

Counselor Justin Elliott said colleges tend to base how well students are going to do in college by how well they do in high school. Colleges don’t expect a student who gets Ds and Fs to get As in college. This means they won’t accept your application.

Two, maybe by some miracle a college will take mercy on your tattered soul. Good luck getting scholarships with your grades and the horrible reputation you’ve made for yourself. By misbehaving you limit your chance of getting scholarships and increase the amount of money you have to pay or borrow. You’re either going to be paying off college loans the rest of your life or bumming off your parents.

Three, well, maybe college isn’t your thing. There’s nothing wrong with that. You’re going to get a good high paying job and be fine. Wrong. While it’s true that some jobs don’t look to closely at your transcript other than to make sure you graduated from high school, all employers pay attention to your reputation.

I know you could care less about what other people think about you, but in this case you really should. If you’re wanting a job that can get you somewhere in life, reputations matter.

If an employer hears that you’re a lazy, unorganized, unprofessional person who can’t pay attention they aren’t going to hire you. So unless you want a job somewhere where reputations don’t matter, like flipping hamburgers, think about what you’re doing a little harder.

Four, you’re annoying everyone around you to the point that when you miss a day the whole class celebrates. No one enjoys hearing the teacher explain the same thing six times because you were too busy not paying attention the first five times it was explained.

Those jokes and pranks you played at the start of the school year use to be cute but by second semester they’re just boring and pointless.

We’ve realized you care more about seeing how far you can push a teacher more than actually learning. I for one would give the teacher a high five if they actually sent you to the office. You’re interrupting time that we use for learning.

If none of this scares you, think a little harder, I know it hurts but it’ll be worth it in the end.

Picture yourself 10 years from now. You wake up, walk to the kitchen and have breakfast with your parents.

Time for work, you put on the same grease stained uniform you’ve worn everyday since you started the job 9 years ago and you walk to work.

You can’t afford a car, let alone gas because you’re working minimum wage and you boss has no intentions of promoting you. Basically, you’re stuck in an unpleasant life.

To sum this up you’re a pain to yourself by not allowing yourself to get the chances other people who don’t misbehave get.

You’re a pain to the students who have to deal with you. We’ll get to graduate though and possibly not have to see you again until we stop at the fast food restaurant that you work at, you’ll always have to deal with the consequences of you’re misbehavior.

Hopefully, by reading this article you’ve realized it’s time to put the big kid pants on and pay attention, but if not, by all means continue misbehaving and see how much of a pointless life you can gain. You’re hurting yourself more than you’re hurting me.