This week I start my senior year of high school -- senior year! I feel like it was just yesterday that I was a freshman who was still trying to figure out this whole high school life. I have learned many lessons these past three years, made many memories and grown as a person. There are so many things that come with senior year. From your last first day, ACT scores, prom, Friday night lights, senioritis, college decisions, all the way to graduation.

Part of me is ready to be a senior and be done with high school, but the other part of me is a little nervous. You are probably thinking, "Nervous? You shouldn't be nervous for senior year." Well, I kind of am because I know it is going to go by super fast, and I also know that after this is college. College will be a whole other step and chapter in my life that I will talk about too when the time comes. Anyway, there is still that little girl inside me that doesn't want to grow up. Who still needs her parents to help her sometimes, and who wishes she wasn't leaving home in a year. Then again, I want to be independent and get to do things grown ups do. It feels like I am stuck in the middle which is not fun sometimes, but I know it will all be OK and I will be OK.

I hear that senior year is a time to make every second count and I truly believe that. I hope this year I will have fun, but most importantly, create special memories with my friends before it is time to say goodbye to each other. I am a very emotional person who will probably cry a lot as a senior. Actually I already have! I just can't wrap my mind around the fact that I am growing up. I remember how last year I wished I was already a senior, and now I understand why the seniors last year would say, "No you don't. I wish I was still a junior." Time flies way too fast to just live life without making the best of it. I guess what I hope to keep in mind this year is to live in the moment and to not rush through this last year of high school. So, cheers to senior year! Time to make awesome memories and enjoy the the little things!