Ending
the year with a project
High
school, a four year agreement with yourself and the school attendance
secretary. Starting your high school life with your freshmen year building up
every year closer and closer to the finish line, also known as your big senior
year: the last year, the real deal. You build up your four years to that year,
that finish line, building up those credits that don’t seem important until you
get to the end, realizing you should have taken the last three years seriously.
Those credits determine if you are going to graduate or not.
Senior
year is similar to all the previous years, as well. The only minor difference
is the legendary Senior Project. The Senior Project used to be a “project”, a
task of some sort. But the school decided that the Senior “Project” was too
complicated and stressful on the students and decided to make the Senior Project
a “five year plan paper.” A 6-8 page paper on your personal five year plan,
your plans for life spread over five years.
The
senior year is stressful, exciting, and full of all sorts of pressure. Senior
year should most of all be memorialized as a good time, a great memory. Senior
year shouldn’t be pumped full of stress and paper work. It is at times, but
each generation should get more educated on your senior year whether it be
taking some time talking to seniors when you are grades 9-11, looking through the
Senior Project packet, or just getting a jumpstart on senior requirements early.
A pre- senior year warning on what to expect really is helping me through my
year so far.
The
Senior Project is only difficult if you make it out to be that way. Just keep
up with deadlines, think with every spare moment you have about what will you
do with your life, roll around some ideas, think of locations, and, most
importantly, do what you love. Don’t settle for something average.
By
Briar Ahlborn
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