Senioritis

With just 35 days until commencement ceremony and only 23 more days of school, a great case of Senioritis is setting in.

What is Senioritis?

noun. A crippling disease that strikes high school seniors. Symptoms include: laziness, an over-excessive wearing of track pants, old athletic shirts, sweatpants, athletic shorts, and sweatshirts. Also features a lack of studying, repeated absences, and a generally dismissive attitude. The only known cure is a phenomenon known as graduation.

It's been like this since the start of the current semester, but it has heightened since Spring Break. We have only a month left, we're almost done learning new things, and our grades don't truly matter anymore.

It's pretty obvious when you compare my grades this marking period to earlier this year. My highest grade this marking period is a little lower than my lowest grade from second marking period. I know, it's pretty pathetic.

It is as if we are all regressing backwards through our educational careers. But, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, we won't regress too far because right before we reach the mental capacity of kindergarteners, we graduate: There's something about that song they play at commencement that erases all of the regression to place you about where you were at the end of 11th grade.

So, what's the point of senior year if you end up regressing and just landing right where you were at the end of your junior year?

I think it's to teach us how to fill out repetitive scholarship forms. Or maybe to teach us one last lesson on how to play well with others.

Either way, It's been fun, but I'm still counting down.