Senioritis
By: Bella Hunsberger

    With the school year inching ever so slowly to its’ end, the seniors are growing more and more restless to walk across the stage on May 18th. This eagerness to get out of high school has gained traction on social media through the term “senioritis”, and our school is certainly not lacking in it. Students are finding it to be increasingly difficult to find the motivation to show up and get assignments turned in on time. Senior Evie Coleman shares her struggle in finishing out her last few weeks of high school, “I skip my sixth hour regularly to tan. I have a hard time waking up and have walked into class late many times or just not shown up.”

It has also become clear that seniors are not the only people affected; the disease has developed other variants such as “junioritis”, “sophomoreitis”, and “freshmanitis”. Across the school, teachers are seeing smaller classes and students more detention slips. Junior Sydney Mayginnes spends the majority of her day at the Andover Butler campus, but she still finds it difficult to show up for her three classes at the end of the day. “Sometimes school is just too much,” she says.

Although the Andover Central Spotlight crew does not condone skipping class, we completely empathize with the challenge, in fact many of us face it ourselves (Yikes!). Just keep in mind that, including weekends, there are only 27 more days until summer; for the seniors it is even less! Stay strong these final weeks… tanning, swimming, and sunshine will be here before you know it!