Combatting Senioritis
1. Keep in mind these often-overlooked possibilities:
Colleges will reconsider their admission decisions if your GPA falls to a certain point, especially if there are financial packages involved with your acceptance. Don’t disappoint your schools when you’ve come so far! Is that enough to scare you?
2. Remember: you’ve got a few weeks left.
You’ve worked yourself way too hard for the past (12.5 or 13.5) years to give up now. Apply some of the non-academic lessons you learned in high school to this period of your life. It is of utmost importance that you finish strong.
3. Consider your finances
You or your parents may need to financially assist with your education, so work at helping minimize those costs. Many merit-based and private scholarships have a grade cut off just for consideration.
4. This is your chance to become a better you.
A fitter you. A more interesting you. A worldlier you. Rather than spending your free time watching movies or scrolling through Instagram all evening, start the cooking blog you know you can succeed at or read that book at the bottom of your shelf, etc.
5. Keep a daily — or at least weekly — checklist.
This one certainly wins the lame award, but it will keep you on track, I promise. Every day, write down five or six things you need to accomplish by midnight, whether it be homework assignments, chores, or anything else you need to be reminded of. Having a list of things to do right in front of you in ink really makes you want to get it done. If that doesn’t work for you, use your phone or laptop to keep track of your list. See organization page to see how to manage your time and have a checklist.
6. Sleep!
Falling asleep during class and sleeping in will, as always, affect your academic performance. Do your best to get in at least six hours of sleep. You’ll thank yourself the next morning. If you use your time management skills, you will be able to ensure sleep.
7. Get vaccinated.
It’s never too late to warn students of senioritis’s symptoms, right? The dwindling homework submission rate, the tremendous procrastination, the daily six-hour-long naps — sound familiar? Know all the risks of senioritis early so you can prevent it early.
Prevention methods include planning in advance, always staying on a schedule, and making an actual effort to stay immune.
You’ve only got a few months left before this chapter of your life ends. Start the next one — the post-secondary chapter — fresh and on good terms by controlling what you can now, because you honestly never know what’s ahead.
10. Let go of the past!
Do not, I repeat- DO NOT focus on the past or things you cannot change. The time is now. Focus on the present and what you can change now not the “shoulda, coulda, woulda.”
SEE YOUR COUNSELOR IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, NEED SUPPORT OR JUST NEED A HUG!
Colleges will reconsider their admission decisions if your GPA falls to a certain point, especially if there are financial packages involved with your acceptance. Don’t disappoint your schools when you’ve come so far! Is that enough to scare you?
2. Remember: you’ve got a few weeks left.
You’ve worked yourself way too hard for the past (12.5 or 13.5) years to give up now. Apply some of the non-academic lessons you learned in high school to this period of your life. It is of utmost importance that you finish strong.
3. Consider your finances
You or your parents may need to financially assist with your education, so work at helping minimize those costs. Many merit-based and private scholarships have a grade cut off just for consideration.
4. This is your chance to become a better you.
A fitter you. A more interesting you. A worldlier you. Rather than spending your free time watching movies or scrolling through Instagram all evening, start the cooking blog you know you can succeed at or read that book at the bottom of your shelf, etc.
5. Keep a daily — or at least weekly — checklist.
This one certainly wins the lame award, but it will keep you on track, I promise. Every day, write down five or six things you need to accomplish by midnight, whether it be homework assignments, chores, or anything else you need to be reminded of. Having a list of things to do right in front of you in ink really makes you want to get it done. If that doesn’t work for you, use your phone or laptop to keep track of your list. See organization page to see how to manage your time and have a checklist.
6. Sleep!
Falling asleep during class and sleeping in will, as always, affect your academic performance. Do your best to get in at least six hours of sleep. You’ll thank yourself the next morning. If you use your time management skills, you will be able to ensure sleep.
7. Get vaccinated.
It’s never too late to warn students of senioritis’s symptoms, right? The dwindling homework submission rate, the tremendous procrastination, the daily six-hour-long naps — sound familiar? Know all the risks of senioritis early so you can prevent it early.
Prevention methods include planning in advance, always staying on a schedule, and making an actual effort to stay immune.
You’ve only got a few months left before this chapter of your life ends. Start the next one — the post-secondary chapter — fresh and on good terms by controlling what you can now, because you honestly never know what’s ahead.
10. Let go of the past!
Do not, I repeat- DO NOT focus on the past or things you cannot change. The time is now. Focus on the present and what you can change now not the “shoulda, coulda, woulda.”
SEE YOUR COUNSELOR IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, NEED SUPPORT OR JUST NEED A HUG!
