As the school year comes to an end, seniors become overwhelmed with the disease commonly known as “senioritis” in which is the name for not wanting to do work for high school and wanting to get started with life as an adult. Work ethics, lack of motivation, and the Internet have all taken part in the weariness taking over Panther Creek.

For seniors, few weeks remain and many of them have decided that it is useless to continue to work hard for classes that “don’t matter”, since they have already been accepted into college and don’t need the credits. Josh Dodson says that he believes senioritis exists and when AP exams are over, his motivation to continue with school work will definitely be gone. Math class, specifically Calculus, was a class that he avoided doing homework, because he didn’t like it. Savannah Sutherland agrees with Josh and that senioritis, the lack of motivation for seniors to do anything, but adds that the reality of college coming in is more of the reason as to why she has it. In addition she says that she is definitely done with high school, and is ready to move on into the real world and college. Twins, Michael and Chris Choi both agree in the existence of senioritis and say that because going to college the grades don’t matter as much because they have already been accepted into college and they want to have fun as much as possible. As a result, it seems the more academic classes that colleges look for as a requirement, such as math, English, science, and social studies, are the classes that seniors pay attention to and get work done. Overall, the seniors are exhausted with high school and ready for college.

Juniors, being the next class down, have almost the same mindset as seniors. For the most part, they only do work for classes they deem worthy enough. Lauren Schmidt says that she worked harder at the beginning of the year because she didn’t know the teachers’ expectations and now she just wants to leave school and considers herself “mentally done with school”. Eric Simanskis agrees in the fact that he doesn’t work as hard as he did at the beginning of the year but admits to procrastinating on long-term assignments, and that he forgets some assignments. Kaitlyn Pettey also agrees says that it depends on the classes and whether its worth the effort, and if not, she won’t do it. The harder classes takes longer to do, but for easier classes she gets them done right away because they aren’t that relevant in which Jagriti Vanam agrees with as well. As a result, the difference in work ethics from the beginning of the year and now have ultimately decreased. It seems as if luck were to have it, the “easier courses” were given to students during the second semester and they have taken this as a sign to do sit back and let things go with the flow.

Sophomores have been in the “no boat.” Yes, they are ready for summer but they don’t want to give up on school just yet because grades are still crucial to them. For the most part, they don’t purposely procrastinate on anything and try to keep up with all their assignments. Baaqir Yusuf says that he wants to finish the year as well as he started. Aman Dalal agrees says that he wants to continue being a straight A student, and even when he procrastinates he still gets things done. Freshman on the other hand, that they’re tired of school but at the same time they want to work hard. At the beginning of the year they worked hard because they were “scared” and “weren’t sure what to do,” according to Hailey McMcormack. Although now they seem to not care and do whatever they feel like for the most part. They attempt to stay on top of things but if they forget something, they don’t stress says Emma Lechner.

So seniors aren’t the only ones who want to get out. All grades are counting down the days until summer, they want to be done. Some are just still working because they have no choice. You could say that sophomores have it bad but in the end, we all want one thing and one thing only: Summer vacation.