Senior year is unlike any other. Here are a few things
you should know.. It won't hit you when you wake up for your last
first day of school. It won't hit you as you walk into the Senior
locker bay for the first time as an official senior. It won't hit
you when you cheer at your last homecoming pep rally and attend
your last football game. It won't hit you as you go to your last
homecoming dance and realize Prom is way better without the lower
classmen and the DJ. It won't hit you as you enter the floor to
perform at state for the last time. It won't hit you as you fill
out the countless college applications. It won't hit you as you
write that generic essay letter that you try to use for all your
applications. It won't hit you as your college friends return for
Christmas break and give you all their advice. It won't hit you as
you celebrate New Year's with the friends you have known since
childhood. It won't hit you when you cheer at your last Senior
night and cry your eyes out! You won't feel it when you are having
the time of your life at your last spring break. You don't realize
it during Senior skip day, when everyone, no matter what group you
are in, has a picnic. When May finally comes around and you realize
that it is your last Prom, but you don't really feel it when you
are there having the time of your life. You begin to realize it at
Graduation when you look around and realize that you will never see
half of these people again. You will begin to see it more over the
summer when everyone is getting their roommates, class schedules,
and going to orientation. It still hasn't fully hit you when you
are sitting in your room packing up the past 18 years of your life,
laughing with your best friend about all the stupid stuff you've
done. You might feel it the morning you leave for college as that
it is the last time you will see your room, your parents, and your
best friend for like 3 months. It will finally hit you when you are
sitting in your dorm room with a perfect stranger, that you have to
live with for the next year. Please, Please, PLEASE make every
moment of your Senior year count, you only get to do it once.
College will be a lot of fun, but in the meantime, jump at every
opportunity you get to do anything that you have ever wanted to do.
Spend as much time with friends as possible, for it will not be
long until you meet new people and inevitably grow
apart.