Senioritis Hats

Senioritis is a real entry in the dictionary: Merriam-Webster defines it as an ebbing of motivation and effort by school seniors, as shown by tardiness, absences and lower grades, and traces the word to 1907. It has outlived every generation of students since. Student newspapers still treat it as a disease, and the one cure they all agree on is graduation. The joke has real stakes behind it, too: colleges make acceptances contingent on final grades, and a collapse in senior-year grades is cited as the most common reason offers of admission get rescinded. These senioritis hats are for the seniors living it, high school or college, and for the parents and grandparents who buy graduation gifts. The badges name the condition and the class year. The sentence designs carry the bits: the only cure being graduation, a case that kicked in freshman year, cruise control, the parking spot earned the hard way, showing up only for senior skip day, and the second-semester senior who has stopped running and started crawling to the finish line. The cure-is-graduation line is already a proven phrase on class shirts, but we found no embroidered senioritis hat, so this lane is open. SENIOR 2027 needs a year swap each summer; the rest roll over unchanged. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one through the last semester, or give one to the senior who is already gone in everything but attendance.