It is always difficult to stay productive, but in Junior Advisory, being unproductive almost feels inevitable. Whether students are sleeping, scrolling on their phones, or sitting on their laptops pretending to work, the reality is that very little ever seems to happen in the class.
However, some students recently decided to challenge that expectation and began “hustling” during Advisory. For once, students were caught actually working — and not just on homework. Instead, several juniors reportedly began working online jobs during class, proving that even Junior Advisory can somehow become a workplace.
Three students were allegedly caught working as moderators for an online day-trading community, which one participant described as “free money.” Together, the group reportedly made around one hundred dollars in profit. While that amount may not seem particularly impressive in the grand scheme of things — especially at Loyola — it was still technically honest work.
Alastair Campos ‘27, a junior who witnessed the situation unfold, described the experience of being surrounded by such “entrepreneurial” students.
“Duuuuude, they were screaming over seven dollars,” Campos said. “It was so irritating. I don’t even think the guy that was supposed to pay them actually gave them the money. When they started losing money, though, everything completely fell apart. Nobody liked them anyways.”
Although the student moderators may not have been especially popular among their classmates, they still managed to accomplish something most students believed impossible: they were productive during Junior Advisory.
Another question raised throughout the situation was, “What did the substitute teacher think?”
Most substitutes spend Advisory quietly watching over distracted high school students glued to their phones, so making them genuinely upset seems nearly impossible. Somehow, however, these students managed to accomplish exactly that.
One anonymous substitute teacher shared their thoughts on the experience:
“I didn’t sign up for whatever that was,” they explained. “I thought this was supposed to be an easy job, but life can always get worse. You seriously don’t understand the level of insanity involved with dealing with people screaming over two dollars. Never again.”
Some students argued that nobody really cared about the productivity of the so-called “Junior Advisory hustlers,” but others viewed the situation differently. In a class where nearly ninety percent of students appear to accomplish absolutely nothing, even a chaotic attempt at productivity felt strangely revolutionary.
Breaking the status quo is difficult, but doing so while everyone around you is annoyed may be even harder.
Perhaps these students will inspire others to begin finishing homework earlier, or perhaps they will inspire the next generation of questionable day traders. Either way, Junior Advisory may never feel quite the same again.
Every day, students walk into the Library Lecture Hall with absolutely no idea what awaits them. For some, the experience resembles psychological warfare more than a school period. The average punishment for procrastination during Advisory has been jokingly compared to an ancient sacrificial ritual designed to satisfy the gods of homework and unfinished assignments.
Nonetheless, these juniors accomplished something many students believed impossible: they managed to be productive during Junior Advisory.
