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Community Colleges

If students are affected by Senioritis, don't they attend a community college if they were admission was rejected? I am sure they would attend a community college and successfully transfer to a univeristy. And a large percentage of high school seniors would plan of attending a community college before transferring. But then they will still slack off in their senior year. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.151.6.184 (talk) 22:04, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

from Vfd

On 8 Mar 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Senioritis for a record of the discussion. —Korath (Talk) 17:09, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)

Link to Lame duck?

I removed the link to Lame duck. I can sort of see the connection, but it's tenuous at best. If anyone really disagrees with this, then by all means reinstate it.

consummate relationships?

Does consummate relationships belong in the list of effects of senioritis? --Shanedidona 20:22, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It should stay, think about how many people experienced unexpected change in their marital status in the last year of high school. lack of ability to consumate realationships is just one of that catagory. If anything, it should be expanded. OParker 01:13, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edits by Eclectek/Chad on Mar 13

I removed some information added by User:70.98.211.98 because it made no sense. Some examples:

"As psychological treatments have advanced, both behavioral and pharmachological therapies have been developed to treat Senioritis."
- completely false. No new drugs have been developed to keep seniors from slacking off. Any behavior therapy methods have been around for years.
"most drugs effective in treating senioritis are similar to ADD drugs like Ritalin, and these substances have significant potential to cause sleeplessness, weight loss, psychosis, and addiction."
- again, false. No doctor perscribes medicines to keep seniors from slacking off. Sure, Ritalin will make any teenager a better student, but no sane doctor would perscribe it for a complacent senior.

I'm sure you can see why I deleted parts of the edit. Chad 02:56, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ritalin has a mixed bag of side-effects, ranging from TMJ to paranoia to stomach ulcers to impotance, more serious ones might include higher risk of suicidal thoughts. However, 70.98.211.98 is misrepresenting the word "significant". As written, it sounds as if Ritalin will have your kid stealing small children and selling their kidneys to his dealer inside of a week. While quickly and drastically altering your ritalin dosage (or the dosage of any psychoactive drug) will certainly have you crawling up the walls, people can usually be weened off Ritalin, Adderall, Stratera, etc fairly quickly and with very little craziness involved.

As for no doctor perscribing Ritalin without sufficient justification; think again. It's easy to get a shrink to say that a senior has ADD and once that's done, you get drugs! Heck, parents buy it for their children all the time because they don't want to deal with a little difficulty. I ran a support group for kids who had learning differences, mostly comparing study habits and strategies. This allowed me to see many different forms of ADD, ADHD and a whole plethora of problems. However several of them - while antsy - really never should have been perscribed anything. Mind you, I'm glad you deleted his stuff, most of it's fiction, but try not to deal in absolutes, like "...no doctor would ever..." because murphy's always waiting in the wings offstage. OParker 01:46, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Having a degree in psychology myself i'm surprised as to the ridiculousness of this article. "Senioritis" is non-existant as a condition or something of treatment. And yes, no doctor would ever prescribe something for "senioritis" unless he's a charlatant and a quack. I believe this article should be deleted and the term "senioritis" forwarded to urbandictionary.com.

Cleanup needed

I think the topic is good, but there's way too much POV writing and a ton of unverifiable material, some of which I'm pretty sure is false. E.g., "may generally be considered as a combination of attention-deficit disorder and amotivational syndrome." I'm presuming this was written toungue-in-cheek, which is fine for a personal essay, but not for an encyclopedia. --William Pietri 20:46, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Prevention or a possible cure?

Can someone add some information on some preventive steps a student can take to avoid catching this? Anonymous 15:47, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

This article got it all WRONG!

This article seems to be hintting that senioritis is slackening off because one has secured a place in college or a job. Well, that is almost opposite of what senioritis is about. As a college student, the way I hear "senioritis" being used is to indicate uncertainty regarding the future, in an emotional way. One starts thinking about the meaning of life, the purpose of one's existance, the pursuit of happiness, etc. Senioritis is basically not knowing what to do with one's life, or not being sure that one is going through the "right" path. Coupled with all this is the prospect of being about to be separated from the friends one made in school and the like. This article has really nothing to do with what senioritis is really about. If someone could get rid of the junk and write something to the point, that would be great. F15x28 01:50, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I would say this article got it all right. Seniors are pretty happy about their paths, and the fact is that grades in Senior year won't change their path.

Or maybe there should be a section for high school senioritis and another one for college senioritis? Dunno. 165.123.143.199 02:08, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Senioritis is frequently brought on by both situations, actually. Some seniors slack off because they're so sure of their futures; others lose motivation because they're unsure of their futures. It's downright bizarre that this variant isn't mentioned in the article, because it's the one associated with depression and anxiety, which are mentioned. --Andrusi 16:11, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I think (having a severe dose of it myself, having gotten into graduate school) that the article is quite correct in this regard. Now for more procrastination...MarcelLionheart 04:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think that first guy is thinking more about Quarter-life crisis than senioritis... Wl219 07:35, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can we put a link to it in a "See Also" section? Andree Chea 18:05, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dude!

There are Middle Schoolers that display symptoms of Senioritis! Should we include that in the article?--69.234.207.238 (talk) 19:17, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't it called SENIORitis for a reason?--72.45.131.210 (talk) 20:22, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, 8th graders get it, too. I guess it's all how you see it...Bmf777 (talk) 04:44, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed middle schoolers

I have removed middle schoolers from the list, there are no seniors in middle school. There are only 3 years, yet there are 4 labels for years (Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors). Plus, when I was in the 8th grade, it was just another year of school, senior year in high school, much different. Not only that, if you add middle schoolers back, you need to change the Wikipedia page for Seniors Seniors —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mraldo (talk • contribs) 03:27, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Massive Deletion

I personally think that this article is mostly mumbo jumbo and should be—unfortunately—much smaller than it is. Most of the text is un-cited, original (not even researched) material. It uses unreasonable medical terms as if it is a real disorder when it is in fact, an issue of laziness. As much as I hate to remove masses of text to an article (as does anyone), this article is basically bullshit to be blunt. Andrew Colvin (talk) 03:47, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What about a compromise?

I agree that this article is written in detail which is not necessary; let alone the picture showing a student experiencing senioritis has no use whatsoever. As mentioned before, the quarter-life crisis is a similar 'ailment' or occurrence - so what if this article was merged with that one, or a small section was created relating to this topic? Gdubi 20:47, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

At the very least, I have removed the completely useless photograph. — Satori Son 02:53, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Article treats it humorously, and as if it is a legitimate physical condition

This entire article is terrible, and treats the 'affliction' of senioritis in a humorous way, as well as if it is a legitimate physical condition, rather than a mental condition, which it does a terrible job in anyways. Kaleb David (talk) 22:01, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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