Averi Gray

Senior year starts now.

With my junior year of high school quickly coming to an end. I can not help but envision what I want my senior year to look like. What senior activities am I going to do? What are my classes going to be like? How am I going to prepare for my future?

When I began to think about my senior year many emotions began to arise such as bitter sweet, excited, overwhelming, and stressful. Ever since I was little I have dreamed about high school and being a senior but now that the time is basically here I can not help but wish time would have gone a little slower.

I want my senior year to be filled with memories. I someday want to look back at my senior year with joy. When I begin to think about senior activities I think about getting senior pictures done, doing senior sunrise, sunset and prom. Envisioning the time is over, senior year is now.

I recently completed an assignment where I had to make a bucket list of 10 things I want to do before I graduate high school. I struggled with the assignment because I really don’t know what I want to accomplish, but I do know what I want my senior year to be centered around. I want to attend football games on Friday nights with my friends and participate in the themes. I want to partake in senior skip day with a day full of plans with my friends. I hope to make a scrapbook of my year, so that whenever I look back, I can reflect on the memories I had created.

Many people decide to take classes that will give them an easy A. I have decided to not do that, and to take as many college credit classes that I can. I know that it is going to be stressful and at the moment I regret it while I am taking the classes, but I know that it will be worth it whenever I get to college. Taking these college classes has me thinking about my future.

I have to decide where I want to go to college that will help me with my career choice. I have spent a lot of time deciding what I want to be whenever I am older. I have had two internships, which have helped me decide. Ultimately I now know that I want to become an elementary school teacher, in hopes to teach kindergarten.

School is challenging and hard, and there are times where you do not always want to come. But there are also so many core memories that you make like making new friends and supporting them. You get to watch and attend sports games, go to school dances, and get the chance to participate in spirit week.

I hope that my senior year is going to be everything I hope so that one day I can look back at what will just be memories. Junior year is now over, meaning that I am no longer envisioning my hopes for my last year of high school and that I am now living it.