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Senior voice: in November

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This year we have been bombarded with questions like: How was the SAT? How are college apps coming? Where do you want to go to college? And what do you want to study?

It’s been exhausting beginning our work to apply to college. The push to submit Early Action and Early Decision applications by November first has resulted in long months of writing, editing, rewriting, and submitting essays—in addition to taking the SAT, ACT, and keeping up with schoolwork. Now, seniors finally get a mini-break from applying until regular decision applications are due January. This time needs to be used to relax and enjoy life. As seniors, we need to cherish this time off and realize that we can’t sweat the small stuff and agonize over which schools might accept/ deny us. We should take advantage of the small time we have left in high school. After graduation we won’t have all of the benefits of a small, close knit student body and we need to maximize the time we have left with our friends.

This quarter has been one of the busiest in high school already and we are only a fourth of the way through the school year. This break is the needed respite and rejuvenation time we need from all the stress we have already experienced. Let’s take this opportunity as a class and really savor every moment of our senior year. As seniors we have more freedom than the other classes that we need to take advantage of; with free periods, chiller teachers, and a better understanding of our classmates. As a class we have one more year together, not even a full year, and we should use to it make sure that we have made all the lasting connections we can in the remaining months of high school. We only have seven months left after all.

But in the next two months the days are getting colder, the nights longer, and we get more school breaks than any other quarter. We need to use all this time to relax, as we may not get another chance until retirement. Well, maybe not so long, but with choosing majors, making career choices, and maintaining social lives in college may be even busier than high school.

We still have a hectic time ahead of us; with finals, another semester of school, more college apps, and finally the transition from high school to college. This quarter is our quarter; we have 3 weeks off of school between thanksgiving and winter break and that’s not even counting the weekends. We should use breaks to catch up with our families, reconnect with old friends and find out what it is about senior year, and high school in general, that makes people say these were the best years of their lives. Let’s make the most of the time we have left and recover all of that energy we spent overextending ourselves junior year.

Contact Alec Petty at apetty@tphnews.com.

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