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DAZED AND CONFUSED
DAZED AND CONFUSED
Lauren Badger
“I’m just done with this crap,” says senior Sophia regarding senioritis, picking up her kid backpack. As many seniors enter the 2025-26 school year, they’re hit with, “a supposed affliction characterized by a decline in motivation or performance.” This is known as senioritis, and as a senior, it feels like dealing with built up burnout that has accumulated over the rest of my high school career. Not to mention, application deadlines feel like a looming tsunami, waiting to crash over the senior class. Senior students deal with not only the stress of applications and deciding their future paths, but also finding a balance between work hours, homework, sports, and their social life. However, some students are not afflicted with the disease of senioritis, instead hit with a sense of urgency and motivation that the rest of the grade lacks.
Senioritis is something not only students deal with; their teachers do as well, dealing with late or missing assignments, unsatisfactory grades and tardies racking up, and a lack of motivation. Mr. Davis says he thinks teachers have more senioritis than seniors, but compared to Miya Follett, this is simply NOT the case. When interviewed, Miya made it very clear that senior year has kicked her butt, explaining, “this year is different from the others because the other years I like had stuff to look forward to and I was just like sticking it out and now its like, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and so you’re trying to run to that light, and also, I’ve been here for 4 freaking years bro, and I’m so sick of it. After slaving away for 3 and a half years, it just gets really boring.”