Searcy (LP) Senioritis: noun. A crippling disease that strikes high school seniors. Symptoms include: laziness, an over-excessive wearing of track pants, old athletic shirts, sweatpants, athletic shorts, and sweatshirts. Also features a lack of studying, repeated absences, and a generally dismissive attitude. The only known cure is a phenomenon known as Graduation.

Senior year begins for most seniors as a normal high school year would usually begin. The senior students fall into the normal routine of attending eight class hours throughout the block days. When senioritis hits the unsuspecting students, a realization hits soon after. Why would a student who planned on being an author or a lawyer even want to think about taking a calculus class? Is there a reason for a future kindergarten teacher to be taking classes on animal sciences? Seniors begin to get a sense of frustration that they were led to believe that those classes were needed. Some seniors may cease attending their classes. Why go to calculus when he or she won’t need it after graduation? Seniors start to count down the months, days, hours, and in some dire cases, even minutes until graduation. In classes, the clocks seem to be slowed down. Time drags on for the seniors who just want to move on with their lives. High school classes just don’t seem to hold seniors’ interests after senioritis hits. This disease is a borderline pandemic, but it can be treated fairly easy. Seniors just have to open their minds to the big picture, and not just on the seconds slowly slipping by in their math class.