<p>It is the final semester of HS & my D is spending a heck of a lot of time on school work when I thought senioritis will be setting in. I probably should not be complaining but am worried that this will lead to some burn out (This morning we started to talk about colleges & she said "at this point, i really do not care which one I attend")</p>
<p>Between studies, work on the school newspaper, ec's there seems to be very little time for "hanging out" time. Is this common among CCers? </p>
<p>Be thankful. Son scoffed at slackers but then did his own senior year. Perhaps your D does her hanging out with her newspaper staff and EC friends while doing those activities. When March/April comes and the final acceptances/denials come she will get serious about where she chooses to go. Let her enjoy her final year as a child, HS student. Do not add pressure or anxiety now when she has no control over her college plans. There will be plenty of time for her to get into college mode. Be thankful she is enjoying the moment and not obsessing about her future. Good that she is still increasing her knowledge base and keeping up her study habits.</p>
<p>She may also be keeping herself as busy as possible to distract herself from the anxiety and uncertainty surrounding her future.</p>
<p>As coping techniques go, this is one of the better ones. </p>
<p>Not every kid is the same. </p>
<p>I dug in even deeper, making sure I left with no regrets. Pounded out As like never before – just to leave HS on a high note. Asked out lots of girls, had a blast. Didn’t slack off, even when the college positive admit decisions came in. Not everyone reacts the same. Kiddo will let you know when they decide to take the foot off the gas.</p>
<p>Senioritis didn’t hit DS last year until April…</p>
<p>My son was so busy from January through April with school and EC music events, that he didn’t get to experience senioritis until the last two week of school! As most of his classes were AP, he didn’t have much to do the last two weeks. I think he missed several classes to play frisbee and his school also has an official senior skip day. I do recall more tardies the last few weeks of school. :)</p>
<p>I have a bad case of senioritis, and I’m the mom. I am so ready to be done with high school. Unfortunately I have a junior too.</p>
<p>My d is crushed by the homework being heaped on and activities. The only senioritis is praying for even more snowdays because seniors don’t have to make them up.</p>
<p>I don’t know how long it will stay this way, but no senioritis here. My daughter just started the second half of senior year and today was the first day of organic chemistry for her. She started her homework as soon as she got home and told me how much she likes the teacher.</p>
<p>My daughter was a stressed out wreck until about April of her senior year. She wanted to slack off, but really felt she couldn’t. I think my son, who is now a junior, will be a different story. He’s already announced that he will NOT be taking any APs next year so that he will have more time for theatre.</p>
<p>No senioritis here. My kiddo is as busy as ever. I’m sure this wacky winter weather plays a part. We have been hit with the polar vortex and record amounts of snow this season. I’ll bet if we had sunny skies and warm temps, it might be another story. 
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<p>Dd got accepted SCEA at Yale and then severe senioritis set in. I wished it hadn’t but I totally let it go. Every kid is different. As for senioritis, I think that it’s hard to initiate it psychologically until after the acceptances start rolling in. some kids never suffer senioritis; I never did.</p>
<p>I think senioritis comes in different forms. My D is still really into school. Excited about her classes. Still giving her activities her all and loving them. However, we do see her slipping in other areas. She’s missing important emails… not taking the time to read past the subject line, taking too long to respond, ect. Her counselor has been throwing scholarship opportunities tailor made for her but D keeps missing the deadlines or barely making them. She keeps running out of clothes because she’s not staying on top of her laundry as usual. Basically, anything not graded or mandatory or interest-based has dropped in priority. She says she’s “just forgetting” but that’s not like her. She’s visibly restless though I’m not sure it’s something those outside her parents would notice. Clearly, she’s having SOME reaction. It may not display as slacking in school and activities but yes, I’d not say senioritis has passed her by.</p>
<p>Snowme, you cracked me up! I felt that way last year when my youngest was in 8th grade. Couldn’t wait for middle school to end.
Spygirl and her friends don’t seem to have senioritis. If anything they seem to be more involved in school if that’s possible for overachievers, enjoying the last few months of senior year and trying NOT to think about next year. </p>
<p>Glad I’m not the only one, agentninetynine.</p>
<p>D14 is still very involved in school, but she’s counting down. Snow day today means one less day of HS. Seniors don’t have to make them up.</p>
<p>I’ve thought I had senioritis for a few weeks (ever since I got accepted to my first-choice college) but it only really sank in yesterday, when I sat through a day of every single bad class on my schedule and my friend (who’s coming to college with me) said, “you know, we could go to sleep during class and get Cs on everything and nobody would care.” And I realized she was right and this is all ridiculous and I may as well sit at home and watch TV because I’m not learning anything this year anyway and YEAH. Which is why all I did by my snow day today is watch The Truman Show and sleep and eat ice cream.
But then I’ve got the friends who seriously start to cry when they think about high school ending. It’s kind of like- am I really going to be an adult? It just plays itself out differently to different people- for me it’s “yes!!! I’m going to be an adult and I’m going to be able to do what I want and live my own life!” and to some of my friends it’s “no!!! I’m going to be an adult and I’m going to have to pay my bills and do my laundry!” Some people just don’t want to think about it (and really, we’re each right in different ways). We all have our different ways of first reacting to news and then, once we’ve figured out what we feel about the news, of figuring out how our reactions should manifest themselves.
Just the overly verbose perspective of a high school senior…
And @agentninetynine I love your screen name and avatar- I literally grew up on that show.</p>
<p>@hannahbanana69 - you are a hs senior and grew up on get smart?<br>
@agentninetynine & @snowme - I am also having a serious case of senioritis – that was why I was so surprised by my D’s behavior </p>
<p>@CUPKSDAD: My dad hit his midlife crisis when I was in about second grade. Also watched Gilligan’s Island, Green Acres, The Honeymooners, I Love Lucy, Hogan’s Heroes, F Troop, etc etc- but mostly Get Smart. I literally know of two other people who aren’t related to me in some way (and are within twenty years of my age) who have watched it, so I get the confusion. But it’s still one of my weirdest childhood memories.</p>
<p>@Hannahbanana: You are fortunate to have watched the best of the 50s & 60s TV sitcoms. Loved Hogan’s Heroes, too. Green Acres is my cell ringtone for the home line, but that’s only because the theme song is my life. </p>