Health & Fitness
So You're Going To Be A SENIOR
A high school student's senior year is either awesome or terrible . . . often due to time spent planning for it. This year's blogs will be about being a high school senior as seen from the eyes of a Class Advisor, and one who has been there before!
It’s that time again! Class of 2014, stand up and identify yourself, you are about to become SENIORS!!!! We are about halfway through the summer, and already Senior Portrait appointments are looming (July 22nd and 23rd at Parkville High School – students received their appointment cards in the mail in June), and beach vacations are being planned with a zeal that is unrivaled, because in 5 and a half weeks, school opens up.
Seniors! College applications, 18th birthdays, jobs, deferred enlistments into various branches of the military, graduation announcements, cap and gown ordering, a shortened school year, Senior Ball, and then. . . graduation! The biggest celebration of an ending to something that is really just a celebration of the beginning of the biggest thing ever – the rest of your lives!
Wait, let’s not get ahead of ourselves, yet, though. First you have to get your senior portrait taken. Then you have to go to the beach. Then you need to make sure you have the right clothes to wear to school, and then you need to start the school year all ready to have success with honor and pride!
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When your eyes are tired of looking for scholarships, get ready to start the year off looking to become involved. Maybe your student government is holding elections and you KNOW you won’t become Class President. So, join it anyway, and help get ready for homecoming, and other joy-filled activities of your school’s student government. Does your school have a chapter of SADD? A great way to enjoy yourself, AND get some much-needed Student Service Learning Hours.
I’m getting ahead of myself again. Class of 2014, this is YOUR year. Take care of it, enjoy it, learn something, do something. Be yourself. Don’t worry about having a boyfriend/girlfriend. Don’t get crazy about what people might or might not be saying about your best friend’s cousin’s crazy neighbor, and take care of you and make this one a year for the record books. This will be the most fun you’ve had in high school. This will be the most you’ve learned in a single class. This will be the best time ever at a football game. This will be the year you shocked yourself, and approached someone who looked new and scared, and you made a new best friend. This will be the year you learned how to hammer a nail straight by working for Habitat for Humanity with your friends during Spring Break. This will be the first time you gave blood at a Red Cross Blood drive. This will be the year you try out for, and get into the Variety Show at school. This will be the year you make a team and work to end cancer by supporting your school’s Relay for Life. This will be the year you make it into the cast of the school play AND the school musical. This is the year. Your Year. Class of 2014, stand up, be proud, have honor, make your success. You. Can. Do. It.
