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Grade 12′s, do you have senioritis?
02 Apr 2012 by Richelle Zheng in Featured Stories / No Comments
Does this sound familiar? You’re studying for a calculus exam when you’d rather be stalking cats on the Internet. You’re stuck writing an in-class essay when you’d rather be outside playing tag. It’s not like you haven’t had these thoughts during the past four years of high school, but it seems different now.Â
Okay, so senioritis is not a legitimate illness, or even a real word for that matter. But the Urban Dictionary defines it as a “crippling disease†that strikes Grade 12 students. Some symptoms are:
- A “lack of studying, repeated absences, and a generally dismissive attitude.â€
- When a college acceptance letter drives away all motivation to do homework, and is replaced by parties and pranks.
- “An over-excessive wearing of track pants…and sweatshirts.”
Does this sound familiar? You’re studying for a calculus exam when you’d rather be stalking cats on the Internet. You’re stuck writing an in-class essay when you’d rather be outside playing tag. It’s not like you haven’t had these thoughts during the past four years of high school, but it seems different now. You’ve survived everything that Grade 8’s are not even aware of. And you can say that even with all those all-nighters pulled, you still have your sanity in tact. So now you can finally start to measure the number of watts coming from the light at the end of the tunnel. And when that coveted college acceptance letter arrives, you know that everything was worth it. It seems as if all meaning in your life has been restored, and at least now you have some form of a future. Each premature strand of gray hair that you’ve grown from memorizing formulas can finally rejoice.
But just before you get too ahead of yourselves and start skipping all your classes, perhaps there are still some things to look out for:
- Most universities still look at your second and third term grades, so if there is a drastic decline in numbers, they reserve the right to rescind their offer. It may seem like an empty threat, but it does happen, and you don’t want to end up like this person. Ouch.
- You know when your friends come back from college and laugh at your high school workload? Well, they’re doing that for a reason. As geeky as it sounds, there most likely is value in preparing yourself well for university.
- Plus, high school is probably the last place you can get a 100% for putting in a 70% effort.
If senioritis is hitting you hard right now, because the cure is near: graduation.
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