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Senioritis

More and more students who slack off or procrastinate in high school during the last semester of their senior year are indeed making up various excuses for better or worse . Their excuses for delaying or postponing actions are almost always the same . They blame it for senioritis . This term refers to an imaginary affliction having a deeper psychological implication . It is used jocularly and remains unrecognized by medical authorities as a real illness . Senioritis may be categorized as a psychological affection comparable with

depression

Students suffering ' from this pseudo malady exhibit a decreasing participation to academic studies and extracurricular activities Senioritis-affected students sleep during classes or do not pay much attention during active class lectures . They usually attend parties and consequently become fixated on them

Some symptoms of prevailing senioritis include : when the learning institution becomes a place to hang out than a place to learn when tardiness becomes the fad and each one comes to class late without excuses . Senioritis-afflicted students show mental regression

They even defy some ethical classroom rules : slurping noisily cups of coffee inside the classroom . Another sign is when textbooks remain inside the lockers and the afflicted Senioritis 3

seniors don 't take notes . Students with senioritis are fond of making jokes , pranks , and goof around to make mess as long as they want

Observers noted that signs of having senioritis are expressed in variable patterns . And the starting point may begin after the submission of the college application and sending-in of the mid-year report . Having nothing much to do , senioritis-afflicted students start skipping classes too often

In reality , senioritis has been becoming pandemic , so to speak . It now affects every other guy irrespective of sex , race , religion , or height It strikes spontaneously like AIDS or naturally like diarrhea or flu

A senioritis-stricken student has recorded the starting point of his false ' illness . He confided that it began during his 6th grade when he procrastinated doing many assignments until very late in the evening He thought it was simply laziness but later

appeared otherwise . Some of his fellow classmates were also infected with senioritis . One of them skipped classes just to play basketball with newbies . The other had a 15-page research report due the next days and he just gave it a damn . Senioritis 4

A high school senior becomes a copycat since catching the transmittable senioritis . He wants to copy his classmate 's homework because of his being sleepy in the classroom . He feels chagrined when this colleague has no homework too due to same senioritis problem

The pathogenic factors of senioritis are predisposed during the seniors last year in high school and shortly before graduation . Senioritis commonly appears during the mid-year when many students have met graduation requirements ' says Jason (2005 . The in fective factors (not viral , fungal , or bacterial ) induce laziness to the affected seniors . Senioritis is easily transmitted to close senior friends resulting in drastic change of their personal lifestyles

Senior observers have noted that...