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Wednesday, April 17, 2002
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By Jesse Wright
THE BATTALION
Look in any medical dictionary and one will find many terms for
ious illnesses, from ancylostomiasis to zymotic papilloma. But,
btween seneciosis and sensorineural deafness, one will not find any
ention of a plague that affects many of the
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Symptoms of senioritis include disregard for grades and
declining class attendance. These symptoms often are prompted
by the closing of a semester coupled with an upcoming gradua
tion date. The prospect of never using a scantron again, never
worrying about the lead weight of pencils or not having a book
depreciate in value by 90 percent the moment it is purchased is
very appealing to many seniors.
Although there have been some mild cases of
senioritis affecting high school-aged youths, the most
serious cases occur among college students.
Rachelle Scott, Class of 1999, recalls her struggle
with the condition as a student at Texas A&M.
“I had senioritis from 1999 until winter of 2001,”
Scott said. “I was supposed to have graduated in
’99, but didn’t until ’01. It was a slow slope down
grade-wise. I started out shooting for the head of the
class, but towards the end, I was just doing
enough to get by.”
In some extreme cases of senioritis, the afflicted do not even do
enough to get by.
Travis Holladay was a biology major with 86 hours of high
er learning under his belt. But, as he approached his would-be
final semester at Texas A&M in the winter of 2001, senioritis
got the best of him.
“It became too much for me,” Holladay said. “I was only going
to about two classes a week, and my grades were real bad, except in
chemistry. But even that was just because I had taken the class like
eight times before.”
Much like Scott, Holladay claims his grades started out good at
the beginning of his college career, but as senioritis slowly set in,
they became worse. This effect is common among many sufferers of
senioritis such as Jeremy Annis, Class of 2000.
“My first years in college, I got mostly A’s and B’s in all my
classes,” Annis said. “But by my last semester I got one B, a C and
two D’s.”
Annis cites the causes for the low grades of his last semester at
A&M as a combination of apathy and a lack of class attendance.
Both Annis and Scott graduated, which proves senioritis is not a
terminal illness. It can be beaten, but it often takes hard work and
determination, two attributes that at many suffering from senioritis
may find hard to muster.
“I finally buckled down and overcame senioritis,” Scott said. “I
decided I had been in school way too long and I was ready to get
out. My last semester, I hardly ever went out at night and
went to school everyday, and I finally graduated.”
For others, the road to recovery from senioritis is a
much longer one.
Holladay had to quit school for a semester
. because of his bout with senioritis. He said he is
going to go to Blinn College this summer, and he
hopes to return to Texas A&M in the fall. He said
he believes he can kick senioritis and finish his aca
demic career.
“It’s going to be tough studying and going to
class,” Holladay said. “But since I’ve been out of
school. I’ve had to work 40 hours a week, and
I’ve picked up some good habits that
will help make me more respon
sible, like having to go to a
place and actually going
everyday. Hopefully I can
apply that to class.”
Senioritis survivors
often go on to live regular,
even successful, lives.
Once they cross the stage at
graduation, the illness goes into
immediate regression, leaving only
small, yet visible, scars on college transcripts.
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