With the weather getting warmer and classes starting to wrap up this semester, students are finding it harder and harder to stay focused in class and find motivation to complete their schoolwork. Although summer is less than a month away and the students are beginning to grow restless for long, carefree summer days, it is very important that they try to finish of the 2012-2013 school year strong.

It is not at all uncommon for students to stare out the window and look at the clear blue sky during class while day dreaming about all the exciting things that they are going to do once summer finally arrives. Everyone does it. Students can’t help but get bored and anticipate summer activities during class.

As a consequence of this day dreaming during the middle of a lecture or notes, students can all too easily get lost and miss an important piece of information. Then they scramble to find the section of notes they missed, while still imagining summer.

Although staying focused on school work during the middle of spring while summer rapidly approaches seems nearly impossible, it is important for students to stay strong. It is very easy for grades to drop at the end of the semester.

Assignments at the end of the school year are extremely important. One ‘C’ on a math test could change an ‘A’ to a ‘B’, which would damage a student’s grade point average. When that happens in more than one subject, which is typically the case, a straight A student could easily become a straight B student.

Although it is not very easy, staying focused on school work is just as important now as it was at the beginning of the year. It is much more difficult, but summer would be so much more enjoyable for a student knowing that he or she stuck it out and finished the year strong. Their sense of accomplishment would be much greater than that of a student who started slacking towards the end of the year.