Bounding Through Senioritis

I’ve never waited until the last minute to do an assignment. I’ve never disregarded a deadline before and I’ve never not cared about schoolwork. The term senioritis always baffled me. I thought as a senior I would just want to get my work done and graduate, but I have discovered the true meaning of the word.

Even now as I write this blog post I am committing a “senioritis act.” My 25-page thesis is due in six day. I have sat in the library now for six hours staring at articles hoping that the paper will write itself. I am actually excited and interested in the topic, but have lost all desire to actually physically write the paper.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, senioritis is “an ebbing of motivation and effort by school seniors as evidenced by tardiness, absences, and lower grades.” Well, they have the lack of motivation correct, but luckily my grades are doing just fine and I somehow have perfect attendance for all my classes (that doesn’t mean I’m mentally always there). Is there a cure?

My cure is finding something more interesting to do. I would prefer writing a blog post about procrastinating my work than actually do the work I am procrastinating by writing this post. I know I will regret not using this time to actually do my work and yet right now I could care less. I want to care about it, but I don’t. I think I am finally burnt out. It never hit me until now that there really is a stage where students can be burnt out. I thought it was a term simply thrown around for those students who were lazy and careless. No, it’s real and it’s a terrible position to be in while work begins to pile up.

Then again, maybe I have become a lazy and careless student myself. Now that does worry me. Graduation is less than 42 days away. Each hour has become valuable as deadlines inch closer in anticipation to being completed so I can wear the ugly black gown and receive the piece of paper I’ve paid thousand for from a stranger who doesn’t know how to pronounce my name.

Even now, as you read this post you can tell that I am rambling on and procrastinating the inevitable fact that I will soon have to face that unfinished 25 page thesis that is mocking me from the computer screen. I guess there’s nothing else to say. Good luck to all my fellow seniors. I hope this post helps you procrastinate your dreadful assignment for a while. Happy senioritis to all!