Senioritis

A fatal disease infects senior college students once their graduation is in-sight. It's main symptoms are carelessness, lack of motivation, short on confidence, sense of insignificance, regrets over wasted opportunities or/and fun, long sleeping hours, barely leaving the bedroom, and an over all depression. Despite it's serious implications on the human species and building of civilizations, the public are an aware of the dangers laying behind what they assume a myth.

Students, through out their schooling, looked up and waited to move to that upper class; elementary school, middle school, high school, then college. But in college, it seems so long, that students give up on looking up to what is next. In fact, why would they? Unintentionally, students, despite extreme busyness in some cases, open their eyes one day to the fact that it is over. Yes, it is over. After four years full of invincible feelings, one is shocked with the fact that it truly comes to an end. That is the first real life lesson: all things come to an end!

When slapped on the face with a hard truth, one must reflect and think. (Yes, she is right most of the time!) It seems then when the senioritis syndrome is revived. Scientists have argued about the real mechanism of the syndrome. They only agreed that it is coded in each students DNA waiting to be turned on.

It's not treatable or curable! Nevertheless, students snap out of it every day. Some others just drown in it's wrath. Students loose their edge, and get lost in pool of questions: what if? when? what happened? what do I want? really?

Luckily, the Aerospace Department in the University of Texas at Austin is aware of such health issue and prepares it's students for this moment from day one by depressing them everyday!