As many of us have experienced, school can be pretty stressful (no doubt about it). However, senior year just seems to hit you a little differently. Who knows, maybe I’m the only one that is seeming to feel this way, but I am definitely more stressed than usual.
Let’s be honest, throughout the last year of your high school career, you have just a tad more pressure on you than normal. You have all of the academic pressure on you, as well as extra-curriculars and GRADUATION. Now, if I’m being truly honest here, I wish I could just skip ahead to the second week in May, hammer out some finals and be done! But, it’s not quite that easy and I couldn’t be that lucky.
From this day until graduation, just 82 days, I feel that I have so many things on my plate that I can’t seem to focus. For starters, I still haven’t picked which college I plan to attend. I have narrowed it down to two or three, but I’m just so indecisive that I can’t pick! It’s starting to get to a point where I narrow it down to two and just flip a coin. (please don’t judge me for this)
The next stressful thing on my mind is BAND.
We have the Large Group Contest on March 10th, we are performing pieces that are quite difficult, especially for a small band of 22.
We are competing in Pep Band Playoffs on March 20th. This is very important, we have won quite a few times in the past, but now the goal of every other team is to beat us. Not only that, but we are combining with our middle schoolers, who will make up approximately half of the band.
I personally am also involved in a Percussion Ensemble, competing on March 31st. This means learning another piece of music, in my free time, as well as finding time to practice it with the other groups of the ensemble.
My taunting spring decision. Work vs. Track
Basketball will be finishing up here shortly, so that means another athletic season is coming. I have been involved in track in the past, but due to this being my senior year, I haven’t decided if I want to join. If I don’t join the team, I plan to work a few days a week and start saving a little money. But, if I do join, I will have practice every day after school, until meets begin. When meets begin I will have either have practice after school, or a meet, where I typically wouldn’t get home at a decent time. LOOK AT THAT, ANOTHER DECISION THAT I DON’T WANT TO MAKE!
And just to remind you, that’s only two of the many things on my mind.
The "Senior Slide" 