Senioritis

If you thought senioritis was bad after returning from spring break in previous years, just think about how bad senioritis is for college seniors who were sent home for the rest of the semester due to COVID-19. After hearing that classes were resuming online for the rest of the year, mentally it was difficult to get back into the mindset to study and focus. It was a huge dissapointment to leave campus knowing that we were never going to return. Graduation was cancelled or “postponed” to a date later to be announced which pretty much feels like graduation is canceled due to the fact that some seniors such as myself have jobs lined up after school ends which will prevent them from attending future graduation ceremonies. We never got to experience Senior Week, enjoy our last spring outside with our friends and finish our academics strongly. Doing work from home is more than challenging. Each student has a different learning environment that they went back home to. For me, senioritis has hit hard. It is hard for me to focus at home. I feel I am struggling to do my absoloute best in my classes due to the lack of connection to the actual learning atmosphere Marist provides. Typically I could lock myself in the Library and focus on work for 8-10 hours a day, every day for the last few weeks of school. Now, its hard to find 30 minutes of peace and quiet around my house. Chaos is not an easy thing to focus during and I am not sure how the school expects everyone to be doing their absolute best during these extraordinary circumstances. I am just looking forward to being done with school work and I am tired of college.