Tessa Fabrizio ’25
EE Staff Writer
As a high school senior, along with my fellow seniors, we all are becoming filled and accustomed to the weariness that comes with the painfully slow countdown of days until graduation. It is not just the stress of midterms and finals, or the college applications, it is something bigger. Something almost contagious and possibly life threatening: Senioritis. And it is affecting students across the country, one senior at a time.
Senioritis is a phenomenon that cannot be avoided, no matter how hard teachers and students alike try. It’s that stage in the school year when we, seniors, are so close to the finish line, yet so far. The initial excitement of senior year quickly gives way to an overwhelming sense of exhaustion. We have spent years preparing for this moment, final exams, senior projects and for some of us, college, and now that it is finally here, it feels like the hardest part is just making it to the end.
The symptoms of senioritis are easy to spot: the lack of energy, the procrastination that we swore we would never fall victim to, the desperate need to focus on anything other than schoolwork. It is the sudden obsession with prom, graduation and the slowly forming summer plans. We might even be considering or actually skipping classes for beach days or zoning out during lessons. Who can blame us? After all, our minds are halfway out the door, at the beach, at college, anywhere but here, but our feet…our feet are planted at this very school.
So how does one fight the ever growing urge to bed rot and do nothing? For starters, we have to remind ourselves why we worked so hard in the first place, all those nights spent studying paid off! Whether it is getting into a dream college or just finishing high school, there are still goals yet to be achieved, so don’t lose hope just yet. It is important to remember that graduation is a culmination and accumulation of everything we have worked for, not just a ceremony for parents and pretty cords.
One way the burnout can be eased is through talking with friends who feel the same (most likely everyone) which can be beneficial. Realizing we aren’t alone in being burnt out and sick of school, we can motivate each other to move on and enjoy even the smallest things such as shared lunch or even just walking into school each morning, even just until that final bell. Therefore, seniors, as we reach the home stretch, let us keep in mind that this final chapter is not so much about merely getting through or coasting by, it is about making it meaningful and having fun at the possible last time we are together.