“Senioritis” is a word that gets abused early on in the high school progression. Freshman are sure they have it, and by the time they get to junior year, it seems like it can’t get any worse. However, the feeling of true senioritis cannot be fathomed, much less fully understood, until senior year is actually reached. When you’re enrolled in college with no exams coming up and the promise of an amazing summer and year awaiting you, McIntosh is honestly lucky to be graced with the presence of second semester seniors on a regular (or at least semi-regular) basis. For all of you who haven’t yet been able to experience the joys of senior year, we will give you a sneak peak.

7:45 AM- Alarm rings after four rounds of snooze. It’s raining outside, and the bed is very, very warm. Cue mental debate over whether getting up for school is really worth anything. After about fifteen minutes, hunger takes over, and breakfast wins out. The logic becomes “What the heck??!?! I’m already up…Might as well go?”…Well…for the most part. Some days the sheets hold us hostage. Isn’t that what the five maximum absent days are for?

8:32 AM- Probably about time to leave for school.

8:39 AM- Arrive in first period. Realize you left half your books at home, try to care, and fail. Take out agenda and mark off another day on the countdown. Spend the rest of the period in awe of how few days are left in your high school life. Reminisce on the good old days. Maybe take some notes, maybe not.

10:15 AM- You’ve made it halfway through second period. Calculate how many more minutes are left in the day. Somewhere in your wondering thoughts you remember about the homework due next period. Attempt to do first part. Chicken scratch the rest. The teacher won’t notice…right?

10:50 AM- Senior class… therefore video day… therefore snack/nap time. Momentarily debate taking a trip to the nurse for some crackers or, if you can come up with a believable enough ailment, a free pass home. Decide that would take too much effort and impede on those glorious senior exemptions. Go visit Mrs. Black in guidance instead.

12:00 AM- Lunchtime. The highlight of our day. The only thing that keeps us from walking out the double doors. Friends. Food. Gossip. Happiness. At the end of lunch, go back to the sit-blankly-until-a-bell-rings-then-go-sit-somewhere-else routine.

2:05 PM- Spend the class period daydreaming about the college life. Draw an extremely detailed picture of you and your best friends in college with notes and funny inside jokes. (Why didn’t I quit this shindig awhile ago and become the next Picasso?) Laugh until the teacher tells you to be quiet and go back to daydreaming. Repeat.

2:20 PM- Last class of the day! Be excited until the teacher asks for the homework you didn’t do. (Guess my mental alarms are beginning to fail me too). Consider fabricating a highly creative excuse or apologizing. When teacher asks where yours is, remember you are out of here in three weeks and respond with a simple but effective “I didn’t do it.” Since approximately half the class did the exact same thing (aka nothing), teacher decides on a spontaneous pop quiz. Cool stuff. Get quiz. Look at quiz. Write name on top of quiz. Laugh at quiz. Turn in quiz. Wait until friend does the same. Spend the rest of class talking about anything but class.

3:13 PM- Instructional Focus, also known as chat in parking lot time because you’re a big kid who gets to opt-out. Become a human again. Hit up Starbucks. Lay on the sidewalk numb to the world. Do anything. OTHER than endure an unbearable extra 27 minutes of school.

4:30 PM- Put on pajamas and get comfy on the couch. Watch four hours of “Khloe and Lamar.” Eat. Text. Mindlessly surf the internet.

8:30 PM- Look at books you brought home and decide now would be a great time to hit the gym or bake some cookies or clean your fish tank or look at dorm decorations online or do anything besides schoolwork. Laugh at yourself for seriously thinking you might actually do something tonight. Halfheartedly tell yourself you will get up early the next morning and do it then. But then again, there is always the period before. What else is class for these days…other than to do the next class’s homework?

11:00 PM- Another productive day of avoiding productivity completely. Sleep happily knowing there is one day down, one fewer to go. We are almost free.