Definition: Senioritis; the affliction that causes twelfth grade students to use their last year of high school as an excuse just to exist.

   Finishing the journey of high school is very important, but the “I do not have to do homework, I am about to graduate” attitude is crazy. So seniors just drop the excuse not to do your homework. Completing homework has been a daily occurrence for the past 11 years, so it should not be that hard to keep doing it for a few more months.

     You also have to wake up from the “I can sleep in class, I am a senior,” attitude.  We are all exhausted, but no one else is making excuses to take a snooze. I mean teachers have been through grade school, college and now back to school every day to teach, but we do not see them sleeping.

      Seniors feel that their opinion in the school is the only one that truly matters, but really you twelfth graders are only ¼ of the school’s population. Yes, you are pleased with the weatherman calling for 20 inches of snow to keep falling because you don’t have to make up the snow days.  Just remember the rest of us have to sit in class watching the 4^th of July fireworks from the windows.

     School is not over until you hang up that cap and gown from graduation day, so copping the “I’m a senior” attitude does not mean a thing.  All it does is make those students with less than 71 days of school left sound unmotivated and foolish.  If this is the legacy you wish to leave behind, by all means close your eyes, ditch the books, and see what your chances will be of going to the NFL, becoming the next Brittany Spears, or finding the cure for cancer without putting in the time and effort necessary.

     But when you wake up in the real world, just remember you’re not a senior, you’re just a little fish in a very, very big pond.  Good luck.