Word: senioritisã
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...often speak of “senioritis?? as a kind of short-term infection that afflicts second-semester seniors with crippling laziness, or at least a casual disinterest in all things productive. But this age-specific illness is also often characterized by an increased predilection toward most things unexpected, not simply abandoning books for booze, but really finding unusual diversions and activities. Sometimes these two pursuits are combined into masterful social experiments: look at the Last Senior Standing competition, or the wine seminars held throughout the upperclassmen Houses in the spring...
...consider the very worthy profession of high school teaching. If you’re in category three, just wait 50 or 60 years and you can return to classroom studies at your local community college, where retirees constitute some of the most dedicated learners (but where “senioritis?? among the students means not “spring fever” but senility...
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