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Senioritis: A Very Real Disease

As a freshman, I had heard the word "senioritis". I laughed, shrugging it off as an excuse that seniors use to be lazy and have a very YOLOesque final year of high school. Silly Seniors. It was made-up. But it is very real. Too real.  As a junior in high school, I thought I was beginning to see the symptoms of juniorosis. As a fairly hardworking student, I no longer wanted to do any of my school work. When I expressed my worries about this disease to seniors at the time, they reassured me that juniorosis was nothing compared to senioritis. They were right.  Some of you may not know exactly what senioritis is, nor the nature of such a disease. Senioritis is a disease in which a senior in high school feels compelled to do no work at all during the last year of high school. This disease does not discriminate: it affects the most studious of students as well as further inhibits the laziest of students. Perhaps the scariest part of this disease is that it takes differe