COMMENTARY ON THE CONDITION KNOWN AS SENIORITIS
Mandy Flores
TBS Contributing Writer
Senioritis may not be an official dictionary term but it ought to be. Surely it’s a thousand times more useful than the word “pulchritudinous” (like any guy is going to date-scavenge by telling some chick she’s “pulchritudinous”). For those of you that may not know, it’s another way of telling her she’s beautiful.
According to Wikipedia, Senioritis is “a colloquial term used in the United States and Canada to describe the decreased motivation toward studies displayed by students who are nearing the end of their high school, college, and graduate school careers.
“I’m feeling it, but to be honest, I’ve always preferred watching That 70s Show reruns to Chemistry homework. This “Senioritis” thing has not just onset,” Dominique Kennedy, junior, said.
Kennedy is a self-proclaimed professional slacker who consistently claims she’ll go home to finish her AP Review when in fact she’s depressing herself listening to Joy Division (irony, ha), admits that she too feels it. “I just want the year to end already.”
I bring up a point. “So when you’re a Senior, are you gonna try to keep your grades up after you get accepted into college?”
She just laughs and says, “College, oh GOD.”
Brittany O’ Brien, also a Junior, admits that she prefers to go home and enjoy other activities than do her schoolwork.
“So, feeling this Senioritis thing?” “Not really,” she drawls. “I’ve always been like this. I mean, I get my work in, no
big deal.”
Evan Harris, a Junior who, like Dominique and Brittany, is in History with me, admits even he, self-proclaimed nerd extraordinaire, is “feeling it somewhat”. Unlike us, however, he spends his time thinking of spending time in foreign countries, culturing himself for his future Yale education. I mean, I won’t get into Yale or anything, but maybe I ought to, y’know…focus more on current classes.