As my counterparts and myself are slowly discovering, senior year is absolutely unlike the other three years of college, for many reasons, but here are five.
1. Exhaustion ALL THE TIME.
Am I the only one who feels like a zombie 5/7 days a week? I have never felt so tired in all my life. Is this what getting old is like? Peachy.
2. Fake It Til You Make It.
As a senior, everyone assumes we have our lives all figured out, we’re adults, we know what we’re doing. Ha. I never know what I’m doing. I can’t even make small decisions anymore. I honestly shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions. Are we adults? Hardly.
3. Deep Reflection.
I zone out a lot these days, and it’s because my mind wanders a mile a minute. I see all of these freshmen, and I have such nostalgia. Did I act like that when I was a freshman? Who am I kidding? I was way worse.
4. Familiarity.
This campus has been our home for the past three years. Especially at a small school like Wake, you get to know SO MANY PEOPLE. I can’t go a day without seeing 50 plus smiling faces of people I’ve been fortunate enough to know for the last three years, and that sense of familiarity is incredible.
5. Senioritis.
It was real in high school, and it’s real now. The only difference is you’re not slacking, you just know how to do a million and one things all the time. After 15 years of school, you know what you’re doing. It's not that you care less, it just sort of is what it is, and you're good with that.
Here’s to senior year, getting by and making the chaos look easy. Just keep swimming seniors.