What is Senioritis?
It happens each spring as the days lengthen and grow warmer: High school seniors who have applied to colleges or finished most graduating requirements struggle to stay focused on work that doesn’t seem relevant. Even the best students who once spent hours on homework succumb and turn in sub-par work or no work at all. Concentration is difficult. “Senioritis” has struck. 2. How do students feel about senior slump? “There’s sort of a change somewhere where it doesn’t feel like it’s worth it, or it doesn’t feel necessary anymore,” Andrew Geiszler, a Great Falls High School in Montana senior with a grade point average of 4.0, told the Great Falls Tribune. They count the days till graduation or until they make big decisions, like to go to college or join the military. “I am ready for it to be over,” Joshua Tardif, a senior at Mount Ararat High School in Maine who is trying to decide between the Army and going to Thomas College, told the Portland Press Herald. 3. What are schools doing to co
A strange thing often happens during the senior year of a high school or college student. The excitement of starting a new career or higher educational path can overwhelm the routine realities of school life, making even the most exciting graduation rituals seem less and less appealing. This general feeling of apathy or malaise is informally known to both students and faculty as senioritis. Senioritis can strike anytime during a student’s senior year, but generally it appears during the final months of the second semester. By that time, many seniors have already been accepted to colleges or have solid prospects for a entry-level career position. All that stands between a graduating senior and a new chapter in life is paperwork and ritual. Senioritis is not a serious medical condition, but there are elements of senioritis which resemble depression and social withdrawal. Senioritis sufferers often become apathetic towards school-related activities, such as sports, extracurricular clubs,
symptoms of senioritis are variable. Most cases of senioritis tend to start after college applications and mid-year reports have been sent in. This entails a student not doing any work whatsoever, skipping class a lot, getting stoned/drunk for the first time ever, being apathetic about everything, and resenting taking all those hard classes to impress your favorite college which you won’t get in most likely because it’s too expensive. Also, seniors with senioritis tend to play pranks on others, sometimes doing thinks that they would never consider doing. But its alright because detention is alright after your mid-year reports are sent in. Senioritis has been documented in a significant minority of seniors usually at the end of the 4th quarter of the junior year. This entails that the student usually doesn’t do his college essay unitl the last week before the college applications are due. However, the student feels very smug because he got away with it. In other cases, senioritis may sh
Senioritis is that drop of motivation common among students in senior year. Its symptoms are procrastination, lack of focus and slipping grades. Why can’t you afford senioritis? Last summer, the University of Washington revoked admission letters of 23 potential students, as their grades dropped considerably over senior year. And as many as 37 students had their admission letters rescinded by the University of California, Berkeley, for the same reason! “At most universities, high school students are admitted on a tentative basis, and full admission is granted once they graduate and meet all the final admission requirements,” says Darryl Bridges, vice president for student affairs at Francis Marion University in Florence, S.C. “If they fail to do so, the students are never actually admitted.” The cure The best remedy for senioritis is to stay motivated throughout your senior year. Dr. J. Reid Schwebach, a graduate student at Columbia University and a senioritis expert, says there’s payof
