Senior Year is Hard. PERIOD.

Through the halls walk diseased seniors, everywhere you look. What is this disease everyone is trying to fight off? Senioritis. Senioritis can creep up on you. Sometimes it starts right away and sometimes it hits you later on. 

Senior year is a stressful time for most. Kids are worrying about their futures while also trying to focus on the present. Keeping up their grades, applying to colleges, working to save up money and trying to figure out what they want to do after high school is a lot of work. 

For most, senioritis is a very real problem. Senioritis is a supposed affliction of seniors that causes a decline in motivation or performance. 

Some might not start to feel this until later on in the year but for others, it is already taking effect. 

Arianna Henriquez, senior, said, “In a lot of my classes I have been feeling more and more ready to graduate. It’s affected me by not really wanting to get up and go to school. If I’m late, I just don’t come.”

The struggle is very real and that is why some seniors decide to take more blow off classes that allow them to have more fun and less stress. 

“Senior year doesn’t matter much for applications,” Victoria Smith, senior, said. “I think Comp and Reading and Speech are a must because of college credit but other than that, you shouldn’t challenge yourself too much.”

Most kids are just ready to get started on their futures. 

Sterling Scott, senior, said, “Senioritis hit me like a semi truck. 30 minutes into school on the first day and I was done and ready to go to college.”

While college is the plan for most after graduation, some students are taking a different route after high school, like Henriquez. She said that she is pursuing a career in the makeup industry and will be going to cosmetology school for three years after finishing high school. 

Whether or not senioritis has hit you or someone you know, senior year can be rough. Whether the future holds college or just jumping right in, at least the end is in sight for those struggling. May 17 couldn’t come any sooner.