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The Official Student Paper of Riverside Poly High School

Response 1

Nov 19, 2012

EDITOR#11:

For people who do not know what senioritis is, it affects primarily senior high school students who are stimulated by their waning months in high school to procrastinate and ditch school. Whether you have already contracted senioritis or have not gotten it yet, you are bound to face it at some point in your high school career. This is no special charm, no special diet, and no special medicine to cure it. There are, however, ways to suppress the senioritis and make it less prominent in your life.

A helpful way to avoid procrastination is to keep a calendar. Write down assignments, activities, events and other things that absolutely need to get done. Make it colorful; color-code homework for academic subjects, draw pictorial representations of what you need to do. Day by day, you can look at the tasks-to-do and, without compromising, start working. One might think this requires too much discipline and seriousness for a high schooler. Make it more fun by eating some of your favorite legumes!

The uncontrollable urge to ditch school, closely related to procrastination, should be relatively easy to suppress.  Most of the time, when one ditches, it is for an frivolous reason or rather no reason at all. If you experience the Ditch Itch, think about it first: Will my time away from school be spent valuably? There is a point where being too school for cool is actually important.

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