When you hear the words super senior, who do you picture? You probably picture some guy in a fraternity sweatshirt with a beard who defiantly smoked too much weed and drank too much beer his first four years of college. Well I’m a super senior and last time I checked I do not have a beard and I really didn’t drink or smoke too much my first four years of college. Being a super senior does not mean you are a slacker. You could have ended up a super senior because you were a slacker but that’s not the case for most of us. I can tell you why I’m a super senior, I’m a major that has a ton of requirements to fill, I’m also a transfer student I transferred colleges after my freshman year, and I have dropped some classes in past semester because they were way too hard or I did not need them for my degree.

When I found out I was not going to graduate in exactly four years I freak I tried to figure out how to avoid coming back for an extra semester. I wanted to take summer classes or over load on classes during the year. But it didn’t work out because the required classes I needed were either filled or not offered during the summer. So it became enviable that I was going to be a super senior.

Everyone says I’m so lucky I get to go back to college one more time and I guess I am kind of lucky in a way I have one more semester before going into the “real world” but other than that being a super senior kind of sucks. My two best friends are gone, I know way less people on campus now, I feel like an elderly person compared to the freshmen, and the worst of all, having to tell people I’m a super senior. Being a super senior sounds like something one should be ashamed of and I was for a little bit and still kind of am ashamed of. But I realized it is not the end of the world and most college students today don’t graduate in exactly four years so I am not the only one. I found within being a super senior there are some positives, I have more time to join clubs and get new hobbies (like writing for the odyssey), I really don’t know anyone on campus anymore so I don’t care if people see me eating alone or with no makeup on, and it is making me come out of me shell, since most of my friends left I have to meet new people so it is kind of like freshmen year all over again. So to conclude being a super senior kind of sucks but it is not your fault and you might as well make the most of it.