Your senior year in college is not going to be what it was in high school. Besides the obvious fact that you're four years older and probably look different, you're a different person now. You're more "experienced" and hopefully smarter. Being a senior in high school and in college are both monumental stages in our lives.But being a senior in each one has a different meaning.
1. You want to leave because the real world vs you don't want to leave because of the real world.
Being a senior in high school means that you're less than a year away from moving onto to the huge spectacle of college and the freedom it entails. You're ready to move out and be on your own and start over. Being a senior in college means that you're less than a year away from the place you don't want to leave.
2. Freedom
College comes with the right amount of freedom to where your parents still support you but you still don't have to ask them to do anything. Being a senior in high school you're in a tricky place where you're 18, so you're legally an adult but you're parents still have a huge say over what you do.
3. Your Teachers
When you're a senior in high school, your teachers know who you are and are more than willing to help you find your way when it comes to choosing colleges and a major. They're more than excited to write a recommendation letter and it makes more sense to since they actually know your name and more than just a school id. Being a senior in college means that you're lucky if you're professor recognizes you from their class when you go to their office hours. They don't care if you come to class or not.
5. Future Plans
Being a senior in high school, you're applying to colleges and touring campuses. Being a senior in college means that you're applying to either grad school or looking for a job. Being a senior in high school, you think you're about to be on your own in a year but when you're a senior in college you're REALLY going to be on your own in a year.
6. School Nights and Going Out
The idea of a "school night" doesn't exist to a college senior. Meaning, that even though it's Monday, you can still go out. Being a senior in high school means that you may not be able to make plans because you have to be in school by 8am the next morning. The best part about being a college senior is that you and all your friends are 21. You get to have a night out is just hitting up the bars since you don't have to hide the fact that you drink underage at house parties like high school seniors have to.
7. Senioritis
Being a senior in high school you're bound to get senioritis so not studying for a test will be okay because you can probably make up for it with another test or extra credit or more assignments. Being a senior in college with senioritis is a condition you don't want to catch. Because you don't have the opportunity to be lazy with supplementals and capstone classes that determine if you graduate.
Both years will be the best years of your life with all the different kinds of experiences and circumstances set in. Take the best of it and have the most fun you can before it ends with graduation and sad goodbyes.
