Senioritis: A View Into the Final Months of High School

The symptoms show up every year: procrastination, missing assignments, skipping, falling grades, or just general loss of interest. It’s senioritis! It tends to come after students get accepted to college and they feel confident in their post-graduation plans, leading to a severe decline in motivation. While most seniors feel the symptoms increasing in January after they get back from their last Christmas break, and knowing all the fun of football season and the fall activities are over, senioritis can even start in juniors (or in really bad cases, sophomores) who have just reached a new height in academic burnout.