If you have been or you are a senior, you know the stress senior year comes with.

Balancing a job, school, homework, family time, friends, and not to mention at least eight hours of sleep each night, senioritis can become a real issue. But senioritis is more than just being lazy.

How do you expect someone to go to school at 7 in the morning, go to work for 5-6 hours, and then get home at 9, 10, or even 11 at night and stay up for 2-3 hours studying for their final, or doing the last minute touches on a paper/project, or even do their homework that they didn’t have time to do on break at work, shower, and then sleep for the recommended hours a teenager should get each night?

Let’s be real, it’s practically impossible. I used to think senioritis was a joke, or just something people made up as an excuse for skipping. Once I became a senior, I finally understood, and I get it.

For those of you suffering from senioritis, I understand your pain. The struggle is most definitely real for us, and I sympathize with you.

It’s simply not fair for us to have to balance everything at once and expect to live a perfectly normal life. But that’s life.

So, for those of you underclassmen reading this, do anything and everything you can to beat the one thing that brings most of us down. It will prepare you better for the great life just ahead of you.