Conjunctivitis, appendicitis, bronchitis, arthritis, meningitis, senioritis, gastritis, hepati…wait a minute, senioritis? Yes, there is such a condition known as senioritis. No, it has got nothing to do with our body. More than a disease, it is like an affliction of the mind whose victims can only be students. To be more particular, it affects senior-year students from high school or college. Senioritis is usually defined as “the ebbing of motivation and effort by school seniors as evidenced by tardiness, absences, and lower grades” (Merriam-Webster). Hence, senioritis can be understood as not taking care of one’s academic performance. Senioritis, with its symptoms, can be a problem to many students.
Senioritis is accompanied by a student’s …show more content…
To have to repeat the daily routine of waking up, eating breakfast, riding to school, sitting in class and listening to lectures, doing class-works—some hundred-thousand times, obviously starts to be too boring. According to Chickering’s (1967) Student Development Theory, student development decreases as learning conditions become constant and novelty of college-life fades. Hence, like this theory, students in their senior year have become too bored with the day-to-day school system and show less enthusiasm to study (Manning). It is pretty apparent when students are just waiting for the weekend to come on Monday and when they finally reach it, they wish they didn’t have to go to school the next …show more content…
The causes leading up to it are something that builds up over our school years and it is not easy to reverse it. However, being mindful and ready for it can help. Motivation to study can be built up through setting short term goals for one-self. Whether it be chocolates between study notes, or listening to music at the end of a study session, doing these little things can help. Correspondingly, a student cannot possibly change the school system to make it less boring since everything always follows certain patterns and hence, becomes routine. What a student can do is have fun with friends in the weekends. Senioritis like any illness can be cured if taken the right preventive
Senioritis is accompanied by a student’s …show more content…
To have to repeat the daily routine of waking up, eating breakfast, riding to school, sitting in class and listening to lectures, doing class-works—some hundred-thousand times, obviously starts to be too boring. According to Chickering’s (1967) Student Development Theory, student development decreases as learning conditions become constant and novelty of college-life fades. Hence, like this theory, students in their senior year have become too bored with the day-to-day school system and show less enthusiasm to study (Manning). It is pretty apparent when students are just waiting for the weekend to come on Monday and when they finally reach it, they wish they didn’t have to go to school the next …show more content…
The causes leading up to it are something that builds up over our school years and it is not easy to reverse it. However, being mindful and ready for it can help. Motivation to study can be built up through setting short term goals for one-self. Whether it be chocolates between study notes, or listening to music at the end of a study session, doing these little things can help. Correspondingly, a student cannot possibly change the school system to make it less boring since everything always follows certain patterns and hence, becomes routine. What a student can do is have fun with friends in the weekends. Senioritis like any illness can be cured if taken the right preventive