Top Five Diseases Caught Throughout the High School Years
Procrastio
The disease that infects us from the first day of freshman year where the brain becomes unable to access motivation.
Symptoms: Excessive laziness
Continuously saying “I’ll do it later”
Denial
False Security
Cure: Get it done, once it’s over with you won’t have to worry about it anymore.
Senioritis
Lack in motivation towards studies during the senior year.
Symptoms: Slowness
Procrastination
Apathy in schoolwork
Cure: N/A
#SOLODOLOSIS
The lie of thinking you can do everything by yourself, even after the point of failing.
Symptoms: Overwhelmed with: School Work, Graduating, Life.
Not getting help to get stress off your shoulders
Cure: There’s a building full of teachers and staff. Their goal is to get you out of school and be successful. There is nothing wrong with getting extra help to better your future.
Overbookhea
Taking on more than you can handle.
Symptoms: Having a little too “Extra” Extracurricular activities
Dropping of grades
Cure: Make graduating your main priority. Manage how you spend your time and focus on the prize.
Socialitis
The feeling of being a social outcast.
Symptoms: Feeling like you don’t fit in
Lack of confidence
Not with the “crowd”
Cure: Own it. Accept and flaunt the fact that you’re different. All these cliques you see in high school don’t exist in reality. Be proud that you have a sense of individualism and you’re not like everyone else.
Committed to graduate in 2016, Brittani Lewis considers writing her passion, her love and her drug. Brittani spends most of her time with a pencil in her...