Senioritis?
If you're not familiar with the term senioritis, I'll tell you what it is. It is the feeling that many high school students experience as they approach the end. The symptoms include lack of motivation to go to school, do homework, or participate in any other school-related activity. Basically it is an eager anxiousness to be done and finished with high school. Usually, it is felt by seniors in their fourth year, hence the name, but is often felt by underclassmen as well.
Having said this, I would like to formally state that I have been cured of my senioritis.
Today, we were instructed to clean out our lockers, and as I took down the pictures I had displayed in my locker using magnets, I got the strong desire to decorate my locker. I mean really decorate: to take down the random pictures (which I happen to love) and to put up some fun wallpaper and stuff that is meant to be put in lockers as decor.
Also, as I sat in my Bible class which shares the room with the American Literature class (3rd year English), I sat gazing, as I often do, at the posters that the Juniors had made which displayed various American poets and the layout of "Grover's Corners" from Our Town by Thornton Wilder, and I suddenly got the urge to make a poster display. I want to print out pictures of Emily Dickinson or Charlotte Bronte (with the umlauts) or Ernest Shackleton or Thomas More (yay!) and paste them onto a poster board along with excerpts from poetry or narration or diaries or Utopia and decorate it with stickers and nifty scrapbooking accessories.
It's been such a long time since I have had to make a poster presentation... I didn't appreciate it while I had the chance!
So basically, I'm wondering if there is a term for this state of mind. I suppose it may be simply nostalgia, but I want it to have a spiffy term too as if it were a terminal illness. It's kind of like a mid-life crisis.
I don't know where I'm trying to go with that, so I'll just leave it there.
Oh, by the way, I'm still extremely ready to graduate. Thanks!
Having said this, I would like to formally state that I have been cured of my senioritis.
Today, we were instructed to clean out our lockers, and as I took down the pictures I had displayed in my locker using magnets, I got the strong desire to decorate my locker. I mean really decorate: to take down the random pictures (which I happen to love) and to put up some fun wallpaper and stuff that is meant to be put in lockers as decor.
Also, as I sat in my Bible class which shares the room with the American Literature class (3rd year English), I sat gazing, as I often do, at the posters that the Juniors had made which displayed various American poets and the layout of "Grover's Corners" from Our Town by Thornton Wilder, and I suddenly got the urge to make a poster display. I want to print out pictures of Emily Dickinson or Charlotte Bronte (with the umlauts) or Ernest Shackleton or Thomas More (yay!) and paste them onto a poster board along with excerpts from poetry or narration or diaries or Utopia and decorate it with stickers and nifty scrapbooking accessories.
It's been such a long time since I have had to make a poster presentation... I didn't appreciate it while I had the chance!
So basically, I'm wondering if there is a term for this state of mind. I suppose it may be simply nostalgia, but I want it to have a spiffy term too as if it were a terminal illness. It's kind of like a mid-life crisis.
I don't know where I'm trying to go with that, so I'll just leave it there.
Oh, by the way, I'm still extremely ready to graduate. Thanks!
posted by Sarah at 8:56 PM
2 Comments:
"interregnum"
Flintlock Tom
I am am excited too with this question.
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