A Solution to Senioritis

Do you find yourself counting down the days until summer or graduation? Have you found yourself constantly staring at the clock in AP Statistics, just waiting until you can go home? If the answer is yes, then you probably are suffering from a case of senioritis. Teachers still expect you to try in your class when you know perfectly well that grades are already locked. So, unless you fail you are still going to graduate. Most seniors,if not all, have probably fallen into this mindset, which is completely understandable. But instead of wasting away four months of your life waiting to get out of these walls, here are a few things you could try to enjoy and make the best of these last precious and fleeting moments of high school.

Spend as much time with your family and friends. After high school although some will stay at home for college, most seniors will be moving out of the house and some out of the state to attend college. You will probably make new friends in college and your friends now will only remain in your distant memory. So do something fun and make those memories to last a lifetime. I promise you will not regret it.

Learn a valuable skill. When it is time to leave the house and go to college it would be quite beneficial to know how to cook, clean, do laundry, or even ask a girl out on a date. So if you do not know how to do these things, use these next 4 months to improve these skills, so you don’t become one of those typical college students who bring a few bags of laundry home with them every time they visit.

Attend a school sports event that you have never attended before. Everyone goes to the football games, but if you did not know, other sports do exist…even in Texas! Ever been to a swim meet, a colorguard competition, or a tennis match? If not, I recommend branching out and supporting your fellow classmates. Who knows maybe the next pro golfer is napping next to you in Government.

Serve the community. The way to make it in the real world depends on who you know not what you know. Branch out in your community and meet people. one day you may need them and making  connection now could help you out in the long run. It might also be fun, who knows?

Scholarships, Scholarships, Scholarships. College is expensive, and that is just how it is, but there are thousands of scholarships out there, and if you really dig, you could possibly make your college tuitions a lot cheaper.

If none of the above seem appealing to you, feel free to continue to hideaway in your room watching the latest Netflix shows, I don’t think anyone would blame you. Four months, that is it and then you will be free, so just hang in there a little while longer.