Senioritis…what is that nowadays??? ~ A Teen Girl's Perspective

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There is something called “Senioritis” that can occur during a person’s senior year of high school.

Definition (mine -- J):  Senioritis – the act of chillaxin’ and relaxin’ during a person’s senior year of high school because that person realizes it is his or her last year of “kid school,” and the year before he or she officially becomes a young adult in college or the workforce.  During the senioritis year, the student stops doing classwork, homework, and all other school-related activities that have anything to do with working hard.

My question is:  WHAT IN THE WORLD IS SENIORITIS NOWADAYS???

Senior year can easily be one of the busiest and most hectic years of a student’s school career:

There is the heavy load of work in Upperclassmen-level classes (especially if they are at the Honors’ or Advanced Placement level), college applications, scholarship applications, fellowship applications, FAFSA, CSS Profiles, letters of recommendation, essays, personal statements, college orientation weekends, pre-planning for college dorm life, driving lessons, driving tests, study sessions, co-curricular activities and practices, spending quality time with family and friends during this last year at home, household chores and responsibilities, and everything else (!).

Who has time to kick back, chillax, relax, and stop working hard?!

It might be better if the 2011 definition of Senioritis went something like this:

Senioritis (2011) – the act of continuing to be disciplined and learning more every day how to balance one’s responsibilities and obligations at home, school, and beyond since this will be an EXPECTATION when he or she enters “the real world” after graduation from high school.  During the senioritis year, the student increases his or her use of the Outlook Calendar, Smartphone reminder, or other device used to signal him or her of upcoming assignments, appointments, events, classwork, homework, and all other school-related activities that have EVERYTHING to do with working hard.

Senior year of high school can be exhausting and sometimes even overwhelming when everything seems to be due at the same time.

But, after we take a breather we have to just pick ourselves up and get “back to the grind” so that we get things done on time and correctly the first time -- if we try to shortcut our way to finish something we’ll only end up using more of our valuable time with the “do-over.”

Trust me on this one…J!

Written by:

Danielle M. Biggs

High School Senior who is college bound & continuing to work hard to get there!

Sharon M. Biggs, M.A., is a wife, mother, and 21st Century educational leader & school district administrator who serves as Co-Chair & President of Lifeline Foundation, Inc.  This 24-year educator is also Founder, Editor, and Chief Writer of LifelineExtensions.blog.  View other published works at http://www.examiner.com/.  Contact Sharon directly for more information: smbiggs@mylifelinefoundation.org. "Children are the globe's most precious commodity." (Terence H. Biggs, Jr. ~ 2009)