Senioritis: Brick Wall Monster

Senioritis is defined as a supposed affliction of students in their final year of high school or college characterized by a decline in motivation or performance. Sounds about right. Most of us have spent more than half of our life behind a desk, with a teacher in front of us, learning. As much as going to school will help us in our future, no one likes to wake up early to go learn about topics that they won’t remember even taking in ten years. I for one have definitely hit that brick wall, better known as senioritis and it’s not the best feeling in the world. For most seniors, it hits them as soon as they walk through those double doors on the first day of school, but for a very small group of students, that brick wall is waiting for them in the second semester and it doesn’t like to be ignored.

Brick walls are significant for keeping things in/out or keeping something from continuing their path, and that is exactly what senioritis does to an innocent senior. You’ve made it so far, coming to school to learn and take test, and now there’s just something keeping you from continuing. The motivation that you used to have, just isn’t there anymore and you haven’t the clue as to where it all went. It keeps you from reaching your goals, making you feel so tired of running into it like a trap, and boom, just like that the brick wall monster has taken over. It tells you, “It’s okay, you can do it tomorrow,” “You don’t have to go to school today, just sleep in, it will be fine.” And that is exactly what happens, you sleep in and you put things off until the last minute and then you’re so far behind you have nothing better to do than to get up and get things done. Getting back the flow of things at the end of your high school career can be one of the hardest things you will ever have to do as a high school student, but if you don’t then your future could be in jeopardy. Take my word for it, don’t listen to the brick wall monster.