Four long years ago, I was a senior in high school, and I was on top of the world. I took a combination of easy and more difficult courses, my friend group was well established, my college apps were nearly done, and it’s safe to say that Senioritis was my best friend those days. It wasn’t that I was particularly lazy during my senior year, but I certainly worked far less than any of my four years of high school during my senior year. How naïve I was.
Cue the incoming of senior year in college… where between balancing more difficult courses in my major, more responsibilities in my clubs and extracurriculars, a friend group that is as close as ever and wants to spend as much time together as possible, drinking more nights of the week than ever, and trying to take advantage of every opportunity I have left during my time at BC, I am swamped. What happened to those great days of senior year of high school where I simply drifted through the school day, where classes weren’t too difficult and teachers began to realize that “Senior Slide” was settling in? Maybe it’s just me, but in trying to balance everything in my life this year, it seems that senior year is the hardest year.
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love being a senior (even though I may look like a freshman). I have finally found my place at Boston College in academia, in social life, and in clubs despite the fact that it took me nearly all of my time here to figure it out. But that’s okay because it has made senior year such a more positive and beneficial experience than any year I have had at BC. Maybe because I have finally figured my life out (or at least am pretending to have it figured out), I am now feeling the need to be involved, stay committed, and balance every aspect in my life more than ever.
Senior year is a marathon, a grand finale, a last lap around, an exciting adventure, a depressing time of conclusion, a rollercoaster really—it is such a combination of emotions, feelings, and experiences that I struggle to really describe how my senior year has been both the best but also the hardest time in terms of balancing of my four years here at BC. And do you want to know the truth? I wouldn’t change any of it for the world. I have finally found the things that make me happy and passionate enough to balance them all, despite the late nights of studying, the endless emails, my slowly weakening liver, and the increased coffee concentration in my body. By the time you hit senior year, everything all of a sudden is worth the extra work and balance because finally everything seems to just make sense. So my apologies, Senioritis, but you don’t fit in my schedule. Maybe I’ll find some room for you after graduation in May.
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