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. 

Imagine you spent almost your entire life doing something–something that decides what you do after school, when you take a vacation, who are going to be your friends are, and in many ways, this thing could become your entire life. Imagine that one day it just ends. For many seniors, this is the reality.