February 6, 2026\/Midnight<\/p>\n
Erie, PA. \u2013 ACT describes senioritis as a drop in motivation as seniors approach graduation. The closer it is to the end of the school year, the worse our work ethic gets. I\u2019ve always wondered if this phenomenon was real, and now as a senior who is currently in my last semester of school, I\u2019m still not so sure.<\/p>\n
This year started off better than I could have anticipated. A room upgrade, the best class times, and my intensive courses were about to start. I wanted to tackle everything immediately and give myself enough free time to make the most of my last year at Gannon. Senioritis had nothing on me. Losing motivation in senior year? That just didn\u2019t seem possible! There was too much to do.<\/p>\n
A few weeks in, when the bright excitement of the new year faded, I started to feel the sting. Homework piled up, papers were due soon, and group work felt like the bane of my existence. I barely had time to breathe, let alone write essays. Day and night, my mind was consumed by the over looming threat of a deadline. But something kept me pushing through. The light at the end of my tunnel was freedom. A post-grad life, where I didn\u2019t wake up in a cold sweat at 11:59pm wondering if I turned in that last assignment or not.<\/p>\n
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This taste of my new life was sprinkled throughout the Fall semester in the form of breaks. Going home for Thanksgiving was now about more than stuffing myself full of food. It was a breath of fresh air after drowning in revisions and spell-checking. While I was away from campus, I was away from my source of stress. Going back after the holiday felt like a prison sentence with Blackboard as my warden.<\/p>\n
It dawned on me that maybe I was feeling a little bit of Senioritis. Were these breaks even good for me? I mean, it just showed me what I was missing! And when I returned, it wasn\u2019t like I was any more motivated to do my work. I just wanted to finish school entirely!<\/p>\n
What followed Thanksgiving break felt like the most stressful two weeks of my life. My fingers were about to fall off from non-stop typing. When I finally submitted my final projects, I felt a strange sense of calm washing over me, like there was never anything to worry about from the beginning. Was it over? Was I really done? I couldn\u2019t let myself believe it. After months of torturous flow charts and equations, it was just finished with a click of a button. I went home for winter break restless and paranoid I forgot to submit something.<\/p>\n
Now, in my Spring semester, I can breathe. I was able to step back for my last few months and take it easy with my classes, enjoying new electives I never got to try before. Fall semester felt like a Freddy Krueger nightmare I was barely able to wake myself up from, while Spring semester feels like a breath of fresh air. Senioritis felt different to me. It didn\u2019t feel like a loss of motivation, more like an outrageous amount of stress with only a taste of freedom.<\/p>\n
Seniors aren\u2019t being lazy or unmotivated; they just see the light at the end of the tunnel. So, is Senioritis real? Or is it something else? Personally, I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s due to the close arrival of my graduation. Senioritis is the effect of being in school for sixteen years with only week-long and summer breaks to get me by. But it\u2019s also shown me something better: the taste of freedom. What\u2019s keeping me (and hopefully my fellow seniors) from slipping into this state is the finish line. It\u2019s almost here, so keep your head up, pencils moving, and deadlines in check! Senioritis has nothing on us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 6, 2026\/Midnight Erie, PA. \u2013 ACT describes senioritis as a drop in motivation as seniors approach graduation.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-107589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}