Seniors at Lewis-Palmer High School are already ready to leave the place they all can call home. They are infected with an imaginary disease called “Senioritis”. The online Urban Dictionary defines senioritis as “a crippling disease that strikes high school seniors. Symptoms include: laziness, an over-excessive wearing of track pants, old athletic shirts, sweatpants, athletic shorts, and sweatshirts. Also features a lack of studying, repeated absences, and a generally dismissive attitude. The only known cure is a phenomenon known as Graduation.”

With only 50 days until graduation the seniors are becoming more and more aware of how close they are to becoming adults, going off to college and living on their own. Without a doubt most all of them are excited for that special day they get to walk across the stage and get their diplomas.

“I am super excited for the future,”  senior Peter Barringer said. “I’m ready for college.”

Senioritis is sweeping the hallways at LP. Teachers and other students are noticing the seniors are ready to go. Enjoying their senior year, they are living it up and doing all they can to make their senior year be a blowout.

“Senioritis is affecting me. It’s making my grades drop. I don’t want to do work, but it makes activities fun. I have time to go out and play,”Barringer said . “I tried avoiding it first semester but second semester it’s unavoidable. Everyone catches the disease.”

Most seniors have similar definitions for senioritis, but it all comes down to an overall laziness. Not only do seniors have this fictional disease but underclassmen as well. Most juniors are right there with the seniors becoming lazy.

Some may say senioritis is a bad thing, although the seniors are basking in their laziness and having the best senior year of their lives.