By Reese Gilcrease
Senior year is a time that students look forward to throughout their time in high school. High school is a major time in life for students. It’s where you meet your life-long friends, where you find yourself, where you discover what you want to do one day, and most importantly where you get that core education.
Senior year, due to stereotypes, is supposed to be the best year in school. You will be the top dogs and everyone will look up to you. You get special opportunities that underclassmen may not get.
As the Class of ‘24 seniors are approaching the end of their high school career, there are lots of things to do. The second semester is the most important part of senior year. It’s when you finalize college decisions, get scholarships, go on college tours, apply for housing, complete the FAFSA, and get your cords, cap, and gown. The biggest part of the second semester is, of course, the graduation ceremony. Graduation is an important time for seniors because it’s the end of a twelve-year chapter of your life.
Senior counselor Destiny Jamison, has been going around to all students, passing out their transcripts and helping them to get everything done they will need to graduate. Mrs. Jamison wants to see all of her seniors walk across the stage and celebrate all they have accomplished.
“You can practically hear the graduation march starting, because you only have 70 school days left in your Captain Shreve journey. Exciting, right?” Mrs. Jamison stated.
A lot of seniors have been talking about senioritis, which is where you have a decline in your motivation to do school work.
“Senior year feels like you don’t want to be here, especially after you get accepted into college,” senior Alexis Johnson-Williams said.
As a senior, once you realize how close you are to the new chapter of your life, it gets harder and harder to want to continue this one. If you’re one of those people who reads the end of the book halfway through, that’s what senior year feels like because you know what’s coming.