Beep. Beep. Beep. It’s 5 a.m. and time to get ready for school. Struggling to get ready by 7 a.m. is every high school student’s daily routine. After seven hours at school, most students participate in extra-curricular activities. After that, homework and studying consume between one and five of the day’s remaining hours. With the few hours left, students must decide between eating, showering, and sleeping. Most times, eating and showering take priority, leaving students to be deprived of much needed sleep.

   This is the typical teenager. As hard as they have it, one group of students has it even harder: Seniors. In addition to the normal struggle, seniors must add the stress of applying for college and scholarships/financial aid, keeping their grades up in advanced/AP classes, and earning money to pay bills and other expenses. Toward the end of the first quarter (mid-November), many seniors experience a downfall in motivation and energy: Senioritis. Senior Lynn Pytell feels the effects of Senioritis.

   “Everyone’s been waiting for this year for so long, and since seniors have already taken all the hard classes that they have to take, they’re gonna have a bunch of blow-off classes, which just makes them lazy,” Pytell said.

   Although Senioritis is inevitable, with the end goal in mind (graduation), every senior has the power to successfully complete the year.