It's that time of year again. That time when seniors are lacking the motivation to complete school assignments … when that dreaded senioritis really kicks in. And it's really no biggie, right? They've all gotten into college. It's pretty much expected out of the graduating class.

Being a junior, this shouldn't apply to me, yet I've surprised myself into finding that it actually kind of does.

Here's how it goes:

I'm in the lounge sitting straight in the path of the senior countdown to graduation. While looking, I suddenly succumb to the rank odors and the disgusting squishiness of the lounge sofas, and it somehow gets into my head that I'm a senior. Yeah for me — I'm out of here in less than two months! But then reality sets in and I come to the realization that I've got another year to go. A whole year.

But unlike the realization that I'm not a senior, the feeling of not wanting to do anymore work sticks. Unfortunately for me, I'm still in the middle of the most important semester of my high school career. It would be detrimental to my future to succumb to a case of junioritis.

Yet I'm finding it's really hard not to. I've just gone through one of the most stressful years ever, and the end is finally in sight. A short respite from this ravaging storm of a year is hard not to think about.

I've spent many long minutes deliberating on how this dilemma came about. I've come up with a number of reasons:

1. I'm old for a junior at normal schools. Convert this to Uni, and I'm an old geezer. I'm turning 18 in less than six months, while many of my classmates are still 15. Furthermore, I'm older than a lot of this year's senior class. If they can go to college now, why can't I?

2. It's spring. I'd rather think of the budding leaves than decibels and integrals.

3. Standardized tests suck, and studying for them is even worse. I've had enough of these, yet I still have more. Oh how I despise you, you May SAT …

As you can see, my list of reasons is neither long nor strong enough to explain such laziness. Lucky for me though, I only have a year until such a dilemma is justifiable!

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