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March 21, 2024

A letter to teachers from a victim of senioritis

Dear teachers,

I understand there’s a strong irony behind the fact that most seniors are now trying their hardest to try their least. From calculating the lowest grade one could possibly get on a test to checking absence reports more frequently than grades, at this point it’s the 54th Annual Seniors vs. Motivation Tournament. Only time will tell who will win.

Cartoon by Sebi Sola-Sole.
Cartoon by Sebi Sola-Sole.

Once upon a time, we were all motivated. We even took Outdoor Ed seriously. But it would take 12 years of sitting in a desk for six hours, five days a week (that’s 14, 400 hours of desk-sitting or 600 days) to break that motivation. School takes up a good ¼ of our lives—it’s completely justified that at this point we just can’t do it anymore. With all of our minds on college and years of science labs, factoring, foreign language warm-ups, and SSL-related activities behind us, we are too excited for the future and too exhausted with the past to try and live in the present.

Not living in the moment is probably the reason behind the issue of senior year passing by so quickly, leaving behind nostalgia similar in strength to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Although school days seem to last forever (with that clock meticulously crawling towards 8:11, 9:04, 9:55, 10:45, 11:37, 12:26, 1:19, and 2:10), the weekends go by in a second.

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So with the year flying past and college slowly becoming a reality, we seniors are more preoccupied spending our last moments with the people we’ve known since Pyle orientation than stressing over those tedious formative points.

While learning is still essential and everyone wants to walk at graduation, up until this point there was always something to be doing or something to be preparing for. If it wasn’t a huge math test then it was the ACT or AP exams or college interviews. So now, after we are done applying to colleges and have less than 100 school days left, we just want some time with nothing to prepare for. Hopefully our grade’s motivation doesn’t completely evaporate, but know that we have worked hard up to this point so that we can work just slightly less hard now.

With Love,

A Senioritis Victim

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