Pre-Senioritis

Recently a lot of the seniors have been hearing from colleges whether they were accepted or not. It's a very scary time to be a senior! Not so much for juniors, but it definitely sets the tone for next year. I have been able to watch the seniors all year, seeing them working hard, hardly working, and enjoying their last year in high school, all with a general decline in attention spans in class and limited homework-doing abilities. I can only imagine what next year will be for us juniors!
I am so happy for those seniors that have already been accepted into the colleges of their choice, but having seen some not get in really hurts. I try to put myself in their position and think of how I would feel. I have come to the conclusion that it feels like your stomach dropped about ten feet, your heart breaks because you thought that was the school for you, and you panic because now you have to psych yourself up for one of your fallbacks. I'm sure that it is much worse than this considering I haven't actually experienced this harsh rejection yet, but don't you worry, in only one year it will be my turn. Judgment Day is just around the corner.
What can the seniors this year do to help us pitiful juniors who have yet to experience such stress as the college application process and acceptance letter season? Well, for starters, you could write our applications for us and then maybe even bribe the admissions officers to let us in, but if that doesn't work out then I would settle for some pointers on how to put off senioritis until all of our apps are done. How did you guys make it through? Juniors still have time to prepare for the difficult first semester of senior year, but that also gives us time to slack off and freak out and blow off everything. We are in pre-senioritis territory, which is one of the most dangerous and important periods of junior year ever. It is the time we can use to get ahead of the game by starting to think about our essays for the college applications we'll be writing, and to start organizing papers and getting recommendations and boosting our grades. But, knowing myself, I won't start thinking about essay topics until well into August or September, I will scramble to find the Hindley papers tucked away in some random place in my room in December, and I'll be asking the right teachers too late and will have to settle for recommendations from teachers that don't like me. This critical time in high school may seem like pointless worrying to those who have already gone through the process, but show some pity: tell us what we can do to avoid as much of the worries and stress that comes with the first semester as possible.