As many teenagers do, most will experience senioritis. A condition in which most adults will “diagnose” seniors with. Senioritis is actually characterized by a decline in motivation or performance. Seniors begin to feel tired and beat. Tired of going to school, tired of waking up in the middle of the night, or early because they just remembered an essay that’s due tomorrow. They are you tired of the same places, same 4 walls each and every day. They just might experiencing what most will classify as senioritis.
Senioritis goes beyond just feeling tired or not wanting to finish; it is also fear. People deal with fear in their own way. Some back down, some face it head on, and some are what we call the inbetweeners; seniors. Seniors don’t directly …show more content…
What career do they want to spend the rest of their adult life doing? What will they be doing in 5 or 10 years? They are afraid that the choices that they make will never be good enough. They don’t have anybody there to guide them; tell them right from wrong.
When someone classifies a senior with senioritis, it’s because they can see the fear in their eyes. Below the excitement of graduating, they can see grades slipping, stress rising, their attitudes changing, and even those that begin to shut down. Though most seniors are excited to leave, they all are afraid. Yes, they are excited to finally escape the walls that have bound them to education each and every day, but deep down, they all have the fear of the unknown.
Nobody tells them how hard it is going to be, seniors already know that the classrooms and faces we have known since kindergarten will no longer be there. We know that beyond those classrooms they spent eight plus hours a day, there lays a schedule that has no pattern. They no longer have an agenda, a set schedule, a ticket to follow. They don’t wanna leave the nest, for they are afraid that they may not be strong enough. Strong enough to carry them through the next few
Senioritis goes beyond just feeling tired or not wanting to finish; it is also fear. People deal with fear in their own way. Some back down, some face it head on, and some are what we call the inbetweeners; seniors. Seniors don’t directly …show more content…
What career do they want to spend the rest of their adult life doing? What will they be doing in 5 or 10 years? They are afraid that the choices that they make will never be good enough. They don’t have anybody there to guide them; tell them right from wrong.
When someone classifies a senior with senioritis, it’s because they can see the fear in their eyes. Below the excitement of graduating, they can see grades slipping, stress rising, their attitudes changing, and even those that begin to shut down. Though most seniors are excited to leave, they all are afraid. Yes, they are excited to finally escape the walls that have bound them to education each and every day, but deep down, they all have the fear of the unknown.
Nobody tells them how hard it is going to be, seniors already know that the classrooms and faces we have known since kindergarten will no longer be there. We know that beyond those classrooms they spent eight plus hours a day, there lays a schedule that has no pattern. They no longer have an agenda, a set schedule, a ticket to follow. They don’t wanna leave the nest, for they are afraid that they may not be strong enough. Strong enough to carry them through the next few