Are you a 12th grader? Is getting out of bed becoming harder and harder? Staying home more days in a row? If the shoe fits, then there may be a diagnosis for you!
A sickness, disease if you will, with the name of “Senioritis“ that you can obtain by not feeling the need to attend school for the whole day or at all. Seniors are at the end of their journey and want to go out, taking it slow and easy. Classes aren’t challenging anymore; most people have their own car and job, and they think school is less important because they’re more of an adult than a teenager.
The first stage is feeling like certain classes aren’t important. Once you have the mindset of unimportant classes, you, my friend, have just opened the door to the filth of Senioritis. You will begin to have the urge to miss class, whether that be leaving early or coming in late; that urge will continue to grow inside of you, spreading through all parts of your brain, turning you into its host.
“School has become such a burden on me as well as on my personal and social life. I no longer feel any excitement or joy about my senior year.” – Kaylee Palacio-Galvan
“Just one more minute” turns into “Just one more hour”. The second stage is sleeping in. That risky game of a couple of more minutes can alter your day completely. Once you start missing your first alarm, you might as well just roll over and take the loss.
“I feel like, although I enjoy school most of the time, it’s hard to bring myself to go because it’s too early in the morning, first of all, and like if we started later it would be better.” – Evelynn Similio
Once you have acquired the first two signs, you will begin the third, which is usually for more infected individuals. Missing more than one day of school will cause weeks to be missed at a time. Other side effects of this stage are anxiety that rises when coming back to school and grades dropping.
The last and final stage, which is rarely ever reached, is for the most severely infected individuals who cannot be saved, and is when someone finally decides to switch to online school. You will have no desire to come back to school and are too overwhelmed by the missing workload that you completely flip and go online.
