(June 13, 2008) — Rebellion. English teacher Diana McGrath decides not to read Macbeth in English class. Exhaustion. Senior Angie Wang falls asleep on her homework. Disillusionment. Senior Susie Grigoryan realizes that high school never ends. The symptoms of senioritis have worsened dramatically since Christmas. In some, it is malignant, in others less so. But, senioritis simply is. There’s no prevention. No certain cure. According to McGrath, who recovered from senioritis by the end of summer after her senior year, there really is no remedy. “You just have to sleepwalk through your senior year,” she said. Although people are most susceptible to this epidemic after Christmas, it may hit the exhaustion system by contact with other infected students at any moment. “I think a lot of seniors got it before senior year,” Wang said. And there’s no immunity to it as well. By the end of her college years, McGrath began experiencing new symptoms: recurring dreams about skipping a required class and not graduating. She believes that one of the causes of the epidemic is eagerness towards the next step, whether it’s college or a job. According to McGrath, half of Clark’s seniors are showing signs of the malignant senioritis apathatum infection. Besides the behavioral symptoms of missing school, being sick frequently (supposedly) and not listening to directions, students manifest “sheer dread” in their faces. But the other half, such as Grigoryan and Wang, are suffering from a benign form of senioritis, known as the senioritis procrastinillius infection. According to Grigoryan, symptoms include procrastinating and not seeing a point in doing homework. However, unlike the senioritis apathatum infection, it permits students to maintain desired grades. “I’m still freaking out about school,” Wang said. “But, maybe not as much.” Although there is no “workcinnation” that prevents senioritis apathatum , teachers are prescribing a new “antibilaziness” that is meant to get seniors interested in something again—the senior project. However, the attempts have been futile. “What do you do as a teacher when students are just completely unmotivated even to do things that they are supposed to be interested in?” McGrath asked. Students with any form of senioritis are vacillating between laziness and hope. “We feel like we’ve already finished high school when we haven’t,” Grigoryan said. According to McGrath, it seems that students should have something upon their foreheads, saying starkly, “I’m done.” While Grigoryan accepted the fact that she has senioritis, Wang is still dubious about her condition. But, whether or not seniors admit to being infected, they are certain of one unquestionable condition. “I’m totally burned out,” Wang said.