{"id":2798,"date":"2011-01-15T20:27:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T01:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2012-02-01T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T21:48:08","slug":"blog-coping-with-senioritis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/blog-coping-with-senioritis\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog: Coping with senioritis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kayla.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kayla-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kayla\" width=\"400\" height=\"141\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2222\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I figured those of you who actually read my blog have a right to know. I\u2019ve been self-diagnosed with a horrendous, but common ailment. I have all the symptoms: exhaustion, trouble concentrating, plummeting grades and lack of interest in my daily life. It\u2019s true, I have senioritis.<\/p>\n<p>It all started when I received that beautiful envelope from my college of choice. I had just come home from school and it was sitting on my kitchen counter. The second I saw \u201ccongratulations,\u201d my care jar emptied itself right out. I\u2019m going to college! In celebration, I tossed my backpack into the corner of the kitchen, and there it sat for the next three and half weeks. It was only October. All the homework I\u2019ve been able to convince myself to do since is a coloring page for my Senior English class. Yes, we were assigned a coloring page. Even the teachers recognize that we don\u2019t have any interest in doing their assignments. <\/p>\n<p>A common misunderstanding about senioritis is that people can develop it before they\u2019re a senior. That\u2019s not true. We\u2019ve all heard that little sophomore complaining about doing homework stating they\u2019ve had senioritis since freshman year. No. No, you have not. I cannot explain to you the excessive amount of willpower I have to exert simply to write this blog. You couldn\u2019t even comprehend how unbelievably hard it is to motivate yourself to do anything as a senior.<\/p>\n<p>A lack of motivation to do homework is something many high school students experience during their junior year, especially after they\u2019ve taken the ACT. Senioritis, however, is a whole new level of lazy. The first step down this painful path is when \u201cdue tomorrow, do tomorrow\u201d becomes a way of life. Each class becomes the time in which you do the next class\u2019s homework. Eventually, you fall further and homework becomes unthinkable. When you get home from school and it\u2019s the time in which you\u2019d normally do homework, your room suddenly looks like it needs cleaning, or the dog looks like it would enjoy going on a walk. It\u2019s just like the episode of <em>SpongeBob Squarepants<\/em> where SpongeBob is trying to write an essay about what not to do at a stoplight and literally everything is more interesting than writing that essay. Soon enough, you even give up doing other productive things in place of the homework and just waste your days on the internet or watching Netflix. Just a warning, don\u2019t get Netflix as a senior if you don\u2019t already have it. You won\u2019t touch another book.<\/p>\n<p>As you fall further into the world of being a senior suffering from this sickness, even showing up to school becomes difficult. Sleep is precious thing as a teenager, and as a senior it becomes the center of your life. Waking up in the morning for school is battle that is lost many, many times by seniors. It\u2019s easy to rationalize it to yourself. Woke up ten minutes late? Mind as well skip the whole morning. <\/p>\n<p>On the upside, with all of the newly found free time seniors have not doing homework, and barely going to school, it\u2019s the perfect time for self-improvement! Read those books that have been sitting on your bookshelf for months. Go to the gym. Learn an instrument that you\u2019ve always wanted to. Do whatever you want, really, because in another year, you\u2019ll all be freshmen again and all of that senior freedom goes right out the window. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayla Grotsky: My experiences with this debilitating disease<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[31,51],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-kayla-grotsky","tag-miscellaneous-blogs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blog: Coping with senioritis - UPDATE ONLINE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/blog-coping-with-senioritis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blog: Coping with senioritis - 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