Although I am merely a second semester freshman and I was in high school like literally yesterday, so much has happened since that day I walked across the stage and received my diploma. When people say time flies when you’re having fun, if you blink you might miss it, they couldn’t be more right.

As soon as you get back from winter break and are full into the second semester it literally flies by. So much happens at once, you and your friends are deciding where you want to attend college, this is the most stressful time of the whole year because after this you’re pretty much checked out of senior year. After weeks of debating with your counselors, parents, and yourself; you’ve decided. Whether this college is thirty minutes, five hours, or across the country you realize that this is it. High school really is coming to an end. The people you’ve known and loved for the last four years, all attending different schools, all finally moving on from this place you call “home”. This is the only life you’ve really known, these people are your family. All of a sudden you are going to go your separate ways and although you have the summer left, everyone will leave at different times and vacations will get in the way and before you know it you have one week left with these simply amazing people before your life is about to completely change.

When you think you don’t have to go to the game or the play or the party just remember that there isn’t much time left. “Let’s get dinner before the game”, “do you want to sleepover after? We can get breakfast tomorrow morning!”, “let’s have a girls day”… say yes every time. Sure you may be completely exhausted but sleep is for the weak anyway. You never know which one of these times are going to be the last. Like a very wise man once said, “life is what happens when you’re busy making plans”.

And if you are like me, you’ll find yourself sitting in your dorm on a Friday night, across the country from home, about two months into first semester, missing your mom and your bed and thinking about how you wish you were in the stands cheering on your favorite team under the stadium lights, beside your best friends one more time. College is a whole new world. Although you may absolutely love your college, nothing will ever be senior year of high school again. Especially if you are lucky enough to love your high school as much as I did mine make the most of it while you can.

Don’t let these days slip away and leave high school senior year wishing you spent more time with your best friends and less time stressing about things that you truly cannot control. Everything will eventually fall into place, there’s no reason to worry about college in your last few months, I really mean it when I say, everything will be okay. Just live in the moment and don’t rush it, because you don’t want to wish you could go back. Enjoy it while its happening so when the time comes you are ready to move on.

You may be sad it’s over, but gosh are you going to be happy it happened.