Senior year. The year of so many responsibilities and rights of passages that one can not pass up. There's senior prom, college decisions, graduation and finally senior week. Now, senior week is a wonderful and joyous time where recent graduates can spend a week after graduation to have fun and just get away from all the stress that has been nagging at them since January.
Every school has their own variation of senior week, but for a lot of schools, the beach is where it is spent. Now if you are not a senior, please don't go. Your time will come soon enough. However, if you have already graduated, don't go again. You had your chance, and honestly, it's just weird. For those of you who are actually recent graduates here are the top six reasons you should go to senior week.
1. No Parents
Senior week is a parent-free zone where you can be as stupid as possible with your friends.
2. Last Chance for Adventure
After you graduate, college is right around the corner, and for some, work is just calling your name. Senior week is the last chance to be a little dangerous and do stuff you normally wouldn't do. Whether that's partying on the beach with your friends or meeting strangers on the boardwalk, senior week is a week of endless possibilities.
3. Sweet Romance
For you ladies out there, senior week is full of hot guys with their shirts off throwing Frisbee on the beach. For the guys, well there are girls in bikinis lying on the beach hoping you will approach them. Now I had my own little summer romance from a guy I met at senior week, and the trip was definitely worth meeting this guy. Just take a chance, who knows what will happen.
4. Memories to Last a Lifetime
I have some amazing memories from my week spent at the beach after graduation. Now there were some bad ones as well, but who doesn't have those? Take a camera with you and capture every memory possible. You're going to want to remember everything.
5. Believe it or Not, it's Pretty Safe
Now I know what you're thinking, how can you be wild and crazy but remain safe? Well that's easy. The cops in the area know that it is senior week and while they do their job, they also allow the kids to have fun. As long as you're not going around vandalizing everything you touch, you should be good. Plus the cops are there just in case you find yourself in a situation you can't get out of.
6. So Many Things to do
Where you live now there probably isn't a whole lot that you can do, or if there is you probably have done it all three times over. Well at the beach at senior week you will find something new to do every night. There is laser tag, the beach itself, mini golf, just endless possibilities.
Have fun this senior week but remember, be safe!
