Diagnosis? Senioritis!
Miranda Sechler
April 19, 2010
Filed under Cardinal Life
Do you find yourself skipping more than a fair share of classes?
Have you made more reservations and orders in the past few months than you ever thought were humanly possible?
Are you spending more time stressing about getting a job than studying for tests and writing papers?
Is one of your most important goals in life to be home at a reasonable hour in order to get a good night’s rest?
Do you find it hard to go to class, or when you do go to class is it also becoming a challenge for you to actually change clothes and shower before you go?
The symptoms show up every year. High school seniors try to balance extracurricular activities, a social life, college admission, and perhaps a part-time job. Somewhere along the way, homework begins to seem less and less important.
And once a senior gets accepted to college and starts thinking about college, it’s pretty much hopeless.
Suddenly high school seems even less important, so school work begins to slide, and so do their grades. The diagnosis? Senioritis.
Senioritis is easy to catch and very hard to get rid of. Then end of school is almost there and people start to give up and dont care what is really happening. Senioritis is when everything stops and you feel like you don’t want to do anything about school anymore. You see your friends not coming to school and then you start to not come. So basically when you don’t go to school, you get stuck in this black hole and it’s hard for you to get out.
A less obvious consequence of slacking off senior year is being less prepared for the challenges of college. Freshman year can be tough, even for students who kept up with their course work throughout high school.
You probably already know what activities you’ll stay involved in this year. And you know that college applications are coming up fast. Plus you want to make the most of your time with friends and family. Fitting all of it in without pulling your grades down is not the goal.
It’s easy to get caught up in the college admission process and forget about the here and now, so don’t get involved in some activity just to impress colleges. You don’t have time for that.
But that doesn’t mean you should give up your extracurricular activities, since this is your last year to impact your school and community.
Senior year can be sad and exhilarating at the same time. You and your friends catalog all the “lasts”—the last first day of school, the last football game, the last prom. But you’re also looking forward to graduating and starting college. Seniors begin to talk about their feelings and to not worry about anything.
But remember, you can never go back to high school. You may feel ready to move on right now, but I can guarantee you’ll look back in the next year and miss high school. So always have fun and celebrate your senior year. You have worked a long time to get to this point and you should do all that you can to enjoy it.
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