Senioritis is a disease that strikes most, if not all, of the senior population.

Some symptoms may include skipping class, excessively wearing yoga pants or sweats with sweatshirts, generally not giving a care for any of your classes, sleeping  during first and second periods, and constantly thinking about college or the future.

“Senioritis is having no motivation to get out of bed or to look pretty,” senior Sarah Harkelroad said.

English teacher Ted Levey explained senioritis as a terminal incurable disease that elicits extreme apathy and indifference, sprouting up after college acceptance letters come.

Senior Anthony Leal estimates around 78  percent of the senior population have this terrible, debilitating disease. He also said that he contracted it his freshman year, meaning he has been infected for four years.

Although Leal predicts about 78 percent of seniors are infected, this number is sure to rise with the onset of second semester.

Senior Alaina Harwood said she would be surprised if not every single senior had it.

Now that college applications are complete, for the most part, and finals are about to be taken for the first semester, it is time to not care.

Colleges are in the process of looking over transcripts and essays. The hard work is over and it is time to relax.

Take some time and enjoy the last semester of high school ever.  If students wake up and find themselves feeling groggy, don’t worry about it. Go back to sleep. Students don’t do anything the first 30 minutes of class anyway. Don’t feel like doing homework? Don’t sweat it. How much is a homework assignment going to bring down a grade anyway?

Follow in Harwood’s steps who said she skipped class to go out to breakfast multiple times.

One indication this will happen is that ALL the seniors I interviewed for this story were roaming around outside or in the main building during second period… tsk tsk.

“I don’t have senioritis for the first semester but definitely second semester,” Harkleroad said.

Levey explained a novel idea where second semester seniors with a GPA of 3.5 or above can be allowed to not have a fifth or sixth period and go home early.

Who could argue with this amount of genius? Principal Mark Corti, take note please.

“Fourth quarter seniors are useless and should be off campus so they don’t infect the underclassmen,” Levey said.

We all know how students feel about senioritis, but how about the teachers? Does it reflect poorly on them to have most students’ grades fall the last semester?

Teacher Regina Tuner said she sees senioritis in her class quite often.

“I give an assignment and students say I don’t want to do it because I don’t care,” Tuner said.

When asked about how Turner will try and stop senioritis from sprouting up second semester, she said she had no idea and that senioritis is totally contagious.

Good luck, Ms. Tuner. I promise I will never say: “I don’t care” about your lovely assignments.

Science teacher Douglas Mason explained his way of hindering this infection of second semester senioritis by using a board with nails that stick out. How will he use this mechanism? No one knows, but marine biology students beware.

The only known cure, if there is one, is graduation. June 14th  will be the day seniors will be released from the grip of this disease.  My tip, in the meantime, try to keep B’s.

No one wants their dream college acceptance be taken away by some small poor decisions. Seniors, good luck with your finals and avoiding senioritis.