Are you feeling excessively tired? Is Netflix getting more attention than your homework? Have you even opened The Great Gatsby? (I know I haven’t.) Are you prepping for graduation…a year early? You must be suffering from junioritis. This chronic disease is quite contagious and is spreading throughout the junior class.
As the last few AP exams are wrapping up and “Junior Cry Month” is fading in the distance, summer is still almost a month away. Homework is still rampant, but no one’s doing it. Mentally, the junior class seems to be graduating as well. The long weekend is coming, but it seems like summer break should be just around the corner.
It’s only May, but somehow it feels like the end of the year. We still have finals, and term four isn’t close to being over. “I just don’t want to do anything because it’s nice outside,” said junior Grace Strong with a bit of a laugh. The sun is finally shining, all the snow is melted, and nearly every junior can be caught gazing longingly out the window with an empty sheet of paper in front of them.
The seniors are leaving next Thursday, on May 28th, and they will be passing the role of upperclassman to a very “burnt-out” junior class. As the class of 2015 walks for graduation, the juniors will still be walking somberly through the halls going to the classes without their homework completed.
“I started out this year really well,’ said junior Lilli Tillman, “now that I’ve finished AP exams I really don’t have any motivation to do work. “ It’s like a never ending cycle of caring and then not caring,” she said. The juniors are beginning to fall off the wagon a little bit, and it’s beginning to seem like there’s no way to get back on.
If you’re wondering why this article is so short, it’s because I have junioritis, too.