Senioritis hits again... in a different way
Steve Campbell
Issue date: 3/4/10 Section: Opinion
We all have heard of it and probably felt it at least during our senior year of high school: senioritis.
It's the disease that strikes our ability to focus and get work done as senior year ends. We can already feel the next stage of life and dream of that day when homework, tests and papers will all finally go away.
The tough part is not letting it get to us too much. That Saturday in May is coming quickly, but not that quick. May 15th isn't here yet. It's easy to put off assignments until the very end or blow them off completely, but we still have to remember one thing: we still need to pass our classes now in order to graduate.
I've been struck by senioritis before. At the end of high school, I kind of lost the focus to do any work. I was still very focused on band and choir, the extracurriculars I'd been involved with since freshman year, but my math and business classes weren't that important to me. Were logarithms and derivatives really going to impact the rest of my life? I still got everything done and got A's in the classes, but I definitely didn't work as hard as I could have.
Now as college winds its way down, senioritis is hitting again. But this time, it's hitting in a different way. Instead of not being able to focus on work or not wanting to do it, I find myself instead thinking of what I want to be doing. My school work is still important, but down the road, will it really matter if my grade in a general education science class is an A or a B? That thought is what I struggle with because my grades are very important to me, but so are my friendships.
On a random Tuesday night, I could be studying away for a test coming up at the end of the week or reading a chapter in a class that I won't remember anything from after May anyways. On the other hand, I could hang out with friends that I might not see after May. It is that type of decision that is my current senioritis. It isn't so much that I don't want to do the class work, but it's that I want to enjoy the friendships I've made over the last four years because there is a good chance most of us will go our different ways after May.
After college, will I think about how hard that test was or will I think about that night we stayed up too late playing video games, having a few drinks and laughing about some of the good times? I think we all know the answer to that one.
Our college years move too fast to not have fun. Especially senior year, take the good times we're given. In a few months, I'll be working long hours just trying to make ends meet. At least let me have some fun before the bills start pouring in and instead of homework at night, my main concern will be what I'm microwaving for dinner.
It's the disease that strikes our ability to focus and get work done as senior year ends. We can already feel the next stage of life and dream of that day when homework, tests and papers will all finally go away.
The tough part is not letting it get to us too much. That Saturday in May is coming quickly, but not that quick. May 15th isn't here yet. It's easy to put off assignments until the very end or blow them off completely, but we still have to remember one thing: we still need to pass our classes now in order to graduate.
I've been struck by senioritis before. At the end of high school, I kind of lost the focus to do any work. I was still very focused on band and choir, the extracurriculars I'd been involved with since freshman year, but my math and business classes weren't that important to me. Were logarithms and derivatives really going to impact the rest of my life? I still got everything done and got A's in the classes, but I definitely didn't work as hard as I could have.
Now as college winds its way down, senioritis is hitting again. But this time, it's hitting in a different way. Instead of not being able to focus on work or not wanting to do it, I find myself instead thinking of what I want to be doing. My school work is still important, but down the road, will it really matter if my grade in a general education science class is an A or a B? That thought is what I struggle with because my grades are very important to me, but so are my friendships.
On a random Tuesday night, I could be studying away for a test coming up at the end of the week or reading a chapter in a class that I won't remember anything from after May anyways. On the other hand, I could hang out with friends that I might not see after May. It is that type of decision that is my current senioritis. It isn't so much that I don't want to do the class work, but it's that I want to enjoy the friendships I've made over the last four years because there is a good chance most of us will go our different ways after May.
After college, will I think about how hard that test was or will I think about that night we stayed up too late playing video games, having a few drinks and laughing about some of the good times? I think we all know the answer to that one.
Our college years move too fast to not have fun. Especially senior year, take the good times we're given. In a few months, I'll be working long hours just trying to make ends meet. At least let me have some fun before the bills start pouring in and instead of homework at night, my main concern will be what I'm microwaving for dinner.
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