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Hold your horses: senior summer is for relaxing

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As seniors, we’ve been jumping through hoops for years. Sometimes they were coated in flame, singing our greasy hair as we torpedoed through them. Other times we just jumped through the same hoop over, and over, and over again. (Standardized testing felt more like crawling through a long, gray tube.)

In order to come out sane, we’ve had to listen to the little voice in our heads — as well as, in my case, two very real voices in my home — telling us to keep up our acrobatics.

So it’s no wonder that many of us seniors feel compelled to keep chugging along over our senior summer. The voice keeps droning: “Find an internship… get a job… take a class…” And this is fine, if obligations are the skeleton you need to keep it together. If you want or need the money, by all means, get a job.IMG_2862

But don’t let a schedule define your summer: let it take its own form. Let your summer develop as you do.

For those still not convinced, take a moment to consider this: senior summer is possibly the last period in your life, until retirement, where you will be truly free.

We’ve had four years of nonstop running and hurdling our way through high school, and somehow we’ve made it to the home stretch. When that last bell rings, we’ll get a taste of that familiar rush of summer bliss from elementary school.

We’re children once more, and then, suddenly… adults. Frightening isn’t it?

Soon we’ll have college to worry about. And over summer, that means visiting our families back home, possibly training for a college sport. We’ll have new friends, new obligations. Before we know it, we’ll be out, hopefully with a job… forget about “summer vacation” after that.

So don’t let your last moment of freedom slip between your fingers: spend time with your family, take a road trip with some friends. Improve yourself: pick up an instrument, or finally finish some of the books that have been gathering dust on your bookshelf.

If you’re going far away for college, explore California. And if all else fails, you can always just have some down time. You’ve earned it.

Hold on to your last summer, that final vestige of childhood, as best you can. It will be over before you know it.

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