Senior year comes with much more than the most homework you've ever had in your life, not remembering the last time you showered and eating the 500th packet of ramen noodles in a row. Until you're actually a senior, you only visualize having a lot more homework, but the true struggles begin that you never realized you'd have when you are one. As a senior, you literally feel like a combination of a freshman who still misses their parents, but also an adult who feels trapped doing homework and tests still. Below is a list of some of the biggest and most awkward struggles that come with being a senior.
Applying for jobs
Apply for jobs is pretty nerve-wracking, and isn't the hardest thing ever, but the problem is, you need to apply for a job when you still have tons of homework to do. Balancing both is crazy, and you may even feel like you want to focus more on jobs than homework at times. On top of this long and crazy process, you're going to continuously be asked: "how's the job search going?" You are truly a senior when homework gets in the way of job-searching, instead of getting in the way of hanging out with friends.
Being asked all the worst questions about senior year
Speaking of jobs, being told "Just get a job" after you graduate is the eye-opening, nerve-wracking line every senior hates to hear, yet hears enough times to want to slam their head into their desk. Also, "so how's school going" makes us think of all the homework we're behind on and how sleep depived we are as we nod and put on our best fake smile. Similarly, no seniors like to be asked if they're living with their parents, or for how long, One of the worst ones: "So what are you doing after you graduate," as you smile and laugh at whoever asks you this insane question not really knowing how to answer it at all.
You don't have time to keep track of time
In your senior year, you might relate the most to the bunny in Alice in Wonderland. You barely have time for your friends, let alone go out anymore; you always find yourself running to class and then subsequently panicking about getting home as soon as you can to get stuff done; and in the free time you do have, you have something productive to do. Time seems like a luxury compared to how much time you had freshmen year, except then you didn't think you did. You might not even know what time it is right now, but just checked with the thought of some approaching deadline or homework assignment that you need to be doing right now.
Still having homework to do but feeling done
You feel like you're ready to just graduate eons before you're able to. It's the weirdest feeling in the world when you finally feel ready to be an adult, but you're still not being treated like one. Many seniors adapt to the mindset that they're graduating soon anyway so they don't need to do homework anymore. Your perspective of it will definitely change, but just try to finish it while you have any motivation left.
Your lowerclassmen friends
Whether you just met lowerclassmen friends, or you've had them, you really know the struggle of being a senior when you have a more limited time than ever to hangout with even your best friends. Your lowerclassmen friends remind you of how much time you used to have, and also seem to not be able to understand how insane it is being a senior. At the end of senior year, you've gone from "we should hangout some time" to "hope I get to see you again!" after making a new friend.
Being a senior, even among your senior friends, is probably the weirdest point in your college career. You want to finally be done, yet you're going to miss everything so much. You're so busy, though, that you feel as though you don't even have time to have fun anymore. At least we're almost done and can finally sleep again though, right?
