The lack of motivation commonly known as “senioritis” has been hitting seniors with being only three months into the school year. This has been affecting the students’ ability to complete college applications and keep up with their AP classes. Genuine anticipation to attend class has gone completely extinct after writing essay after essay for colleges while tackling piles of assignments for homework.
Herff Jones visited the senior class on October 4 to order the caps and gowns for the long-awaited graduation in June. This meeting marked the beginning of the senior activities this year has to offer. The last year for seniors has been ramping up with senior sunrise, diploma signing, and ordering caps and gowns. The Class of 2024 has a lot to look forward to this year, the majority of it being pushed into the first semester.
While ordering the gowns, seniors needed to know the height of their shoes for graduation so that the gown length could fit accordingly. With late notice of the meeting, students had to guess how tall their shoes were going to be and hope that it all works out on the big day.
“I feel like we could do it during the second semester,” said senior Carly Sullivan about ordering caps and gowns.
Although it makes sense to get all of the details out of the way during the first semester, seniors are feeling bombarded with graduation when all they want to focus on right now is their college applications.
Senioritis is being caused by needing to know everything at once but not having a single clue what is going on. Meaning, seniors are having to answer questions about graduation and college when all they want to do is have fun during their final year in high school. Their last year living with their parents and being around their friends has been stripped away from them because of the need to decide their future. Deciding your passion in life and major for the next four years is a lot to handle as a high school student.
Especially when Covid is taken into account, it does not seem like the Class of 2024 is ready to graduate.
“It makes me sad because it doesn’t feel like we’ve been here for four years,” said senior Mandy Roche.
The past few years have been hard to recall due to Covid taking away part of our high school experience. The year spent from eighth grade to freshman and sophomore year seems blurred out from our memories since we spent most of it on our computers. It almost feels like the senior class has only been in high school for two years instead of the usual four years. We went from opening our emails of the principal letting us know that we are out of school for two weeks, to eventually opening our emails of computer-generated college information messages in the blink of an eye.
