We’re going to come out and say it downright: Senioritis is a load of baloney. Yes, we said it, and we’re saying it loud and proud. Senioritis is just another excuse to coast through senior year.
The array of excuses made by high school seniors is vast, but the most prominent one is certainly Senioritis. Senioritis is, per Merriam Webster, the “ebbing of motivation and effort by school seniors as evidenced by tardiness, absences, and lower grades.” It can often occur as a result of entering your last year of high school, and the belief that you’re essentially done.
Senioritis ties directly into the lack of school attendance and the instability of production during your senior year. Senioritis can lead to poor grades, ditching, and skimping out on homework.
Regardless of your excuses, the only reason for someone to not actively want to do work and participate in school is nothing other than sheer laziness.
We’ve all experienced the dread of doing homework on the weekends or having to get a big project done the night before, but have always done it because it could kill our grade in that class.
Senior year, however, is a little bit different.
Senior year makes just as much of an impact as your freshman, sophomore, and junior year of high school. It still counts for a fourth of your high school transcript, and can be the difference between a college accepting you or not. The very first point made by Marymount University in their article about why senior year matters is that “colleges look at all of your grades.” This article stresses the importance of senior year and how it can change the entire acceptance process for you. After all, who doesn’t want to open up a college acceptance letter, take a big ole whiff of that beautiful piece of paper and get smacked in the face with a “You’ve been accepted!”
Even after you’ve been accepted, a college can revoke (or rescind) this acceptance if they feel you’re getting worse towards the end of your senior year. While these cases are often extreme, it’s still completely possible and will happen if you aren’t on top of your school work or draw negative attraction towards you. Not only will this affect your schooling, it will be present well into adulthood.
Senioritis is a load of horse manure. All of the “I can’t do it because I have Senioritis” is completely bogus. Senioritis is not a “disease,” – it’s an excuse for being incredibly lazy and not wanting to do something. Everybody lacks motivation at one point in time or another, it’s just a matter of how you get over it.
Getting over Senioritis is not easy. If you’ve had an older sibling, it’s likely that they’ve experienced it and had to find a way out. Although it my seem impossible, it’s actually 1000% possible. According to Southern New Hampshire University, the best ways to get over Senioritis are by studying and focusing on your personal interests, getting involved in your school and community, and to start thinking about your future and where you want to be in the next few years.
Senioritis is not impossible to get rid of, and it’s not some “incurable disease.” Senioritis is, to put it plainly, an excuse to be a bum. Once you realize you’re not a chump, once you realize that there’s a bigger world around you, and once you realize you don’t want to be a chump is when you can finally understand that senioritis is a load of bullcrap.
This is the Mav Editorial Staff, peace out and good night.
