As you all have heard, there is a disease that you can develop over the course of your high school years; a little something that everybody calls ‘senioritis’, the condition where you begin to slack off your senior year and slowly give up. To be more precise, it is usually contracted after college applications are sent in and the first semester final grades are released. After three and a half years of working your butt off for those final grades to send away to colleges, some seniors feel that it is now okay to totally disregard school from their lives.
On the contrary, although things may be more lax during the second semester of senior year, seniors still need to put forth effort into school on the reasoning that they are going to need to keep up with their classes for AP testing. Colleges may also rescind acceptance letters from students due to their poor performance during the second semester.
Samy Tann (’12) simply described his symptoms of senioritis as being “lazy…” For the most part, seniors typically describe senioritis as “feeling tired, burnt out, exhausted, and apathetic.” One of the conditions of senioritis is due from being lethargic and apathetic which leads to falling behind in class and digging the whole for the contagion even deeper as the workload increases and the will to do the work decreases.
But then, does really Senioritis exist? Taking difficult classes lead to more work, which makes it harder to keep up. It’s not because you’re getting lazy. Jeff Wang (’12) commented, “People mix up hard classes and senioritis. You’re not doing worse because of Senioritis; you’re doing worse because the classes are getting more rigorous.” Which makes sense because usually seniors take harder classes to impress colleges which in turn helps students boost their chances at getting accepted. They could use Senioritis as an excuse to justify their behavior when school goes south for them.
So seniors, don’t blame Senioritis for all your problems. Take control of this “disease” and treat it as soon as possible so you can graduate with pride and satisfaction.
