Hello fellow seniors, and welcome to your guide to avoiding senioritis.

Let us get our basics down first: what is senioritis? Senioritis is an affliction characterized by a lack of motivation, but why does this lack of motivation take hold of us? It all comes down to the mind. Which means this deadly condition CAN be cured.

If you allow the mind to get muddy and cloudy, then opportunities will slip past you. 

The first step to avoid senioritis is to stay organized: When you are unorganized, it makes it easier to procrastinate but harder to focus. If your bed is messy, you can’t get right in and go to sleep. The same thing happens with your school work. If you have to dig through your backpack for a loose, crumpled paper, you’re less likely to fill that paper out. If it’s set up and ready to go, you’re already halfway there. 

Now the next step would be setting goals for yourself. How would you know what to strive for if you don’t know what you want? We, humans, need something to continue having a reason to live. If you do not have something, it leads to stagnation in yourself. What’s one main symptom of senioritis? Stagnation. Make a plan and stick to it!

Another part of dismantling senioritis would be staying engaged in what you are doing. I know it’s your last year of high school, and you want to get out, but it IS your last year of high school, do whatever you want. If you have all your credits, do not have anything to worry about, and just don’t do anything for the year other than the bare minimum, that’s how you are going to view your senior year, just the bare minimum. Everything is going to be over, and you haven’t done anything at the last leg. You have to be engaged in your last year. Before you know it, it’ll all just be a memory.

In the end, senioritis starts and ends with you, what you do, and what you are going to do. You are the one who is going to be living your life. There won’t be someone to help you live if you can’t live for yourself. Know that this is a chapter in your life, and you are writing the page. So you better make it enjoyable cause that’s all you can do.