Our Turn Hit or Miss Editors reflect on senioritis, senior year blues

Kaitlyn Nash | Co-Editor Natalia Zaveleta | Co-Editor

Congratulations…if you’re reading this then that means we were able to overcome one of the deadliest diseases in the world – senioritis. You should feel honored.

As people who spent their whole high school career trying to join as many clubs and taking as many classes as we could in order to build a collegeworthy resume, it’s safe to assume that we’re tired and burnt out. As we keep getting more and more acceptances from schools, we become less and less likely to feel a need to show up. Besides keeping prom ticket prices low, attendance has become a low priority on our list of real world anxieties.

become friendly with a new city. Thinking about all of these things just makes doing anything way harder because you become exhausted from thinking all the time, making it easier to stay at home rather than go to first period.

Friday night football games were one way that we became more motivated to show up. However, now that football season is over and all of the hype has died down, it’s now just a countdown to prom. There are no pressing activities to get us really excited to be in high school.

Illustration by | Eliana Grant

Having to accept the fact that we’re adults now has been hard, especially since we’re still treated as children. We don’t feel ready for the independence of being in college, particularly because we have to ask to use the bathroom and can only leave from one door in the school. Fitting into the regular motions is hard when you’re not yet out in the world but you’re also not coming back to high school the next year. Everybody expects you to know how to be an adult when you’re still considered a teenager.

Not only that, but at times, not getting communication back from certain colleges can make being devoted to our work hard – even impossible. The only way to describe it is the feeling that you are stuck between two worlds – one that you’re tired of and one that you aren’t familiar with yet.

Once you’re committed and have paid for freshman expenses to your new college, it makes it that much harder to feel like high school still matters. It’s hard to get excited for daily high school tasks when something so much more thrilling is on the horizon.

The premise of change is always scary, especially when you don’t know what’s going to change yet. The thought of having to make new friends, be financially stable by ourselves, situate ourselves into new environments, join (or start) new clubs, and

With the recovery from the COVID days also comes a lack of communication and planning from senior parents that is usually present during the second semester. We are so disconnected and left in the dark about end of the year celebrations such as Senior Lock-In, Senior Skip Day, and Senior Celebration. We want to feel more connected to our school, but we don’t know how and aren’t encouraged to.

The last time that all seniors were together was during Senior Sunrise. Since then, there have been college commitments, important scholarship decisions, signing with sports teams, and enlistments to the military that we haven’t been able to share with each other and reflect on. We want to be able to involve ourselves more with our fellow seniors and share in celebration with our and their successes.

Some advice for the juniors out there: be present. Not just in school and in class, but also in your community and with your friends and classmates. Start making yourself more comfortable with the idea that you’re moving forward with your life. Accept that and make the most out of the time you have left. Do what you think is right in regards to significant others, whether that be sticking with the relationship you have or making a tough decision to let go and focus on college.

Next year, advocate for more senior activities like senior pranks, senior picnics, senior study halls, senior class gifts, etc. Make next year one that you can remember with nostalgia, not one you were rushing to get out of.

One of the student safety rules being reemphasized by the school is the 15-minute-rule. In short, the rule prohibits students from using the bathroom during the first and last fifteen minutes of the class. Along with this, a student must only take five minutes when they do go, and they must leave their phone at the door.

The reasoning behind the ban is that “the first and last 15 minutes are the most beneficial for learning.” But taking into consideration the 30 minute period a class where students can’t use the bathroom which amounts to almost two hours per day of students having to hold their business. With this banning of bathroom rights, the main issue is dealing with the bathrooms being closed is the last 15 minutes, which requires the bathrooms remain open during passing periods and makes the issue of traffic during passing periods worse. For a school that already has shown issues of tardiness due to traffic in the hallways, the harsher implementation of this rule will greatly intensify the issue.

Another problem is a moral standpoint of whether the school and the higher ups should be regulating our bathroom habits at all, because if someone has to pee, they have to pee.

Given this, the fifteen minute rule is a miss that hurts the student body more than the problem disrupts their learning.

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