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Senior year doesn't live up to reputation
Contributed by: Kayla Huddleston   on 2/20/2007

Senior year is supposed to be the time of our lives, a milestone, the ending of the first chapter and starting of a new one. I remember anxiously awaiting the coveted year.
Almost ready to leave high school, choosing colleges and hanging out with
friends are all great but that aside being a senior is boring.
So far this year I have learned a few things, the most important that I am
ready to leave high school. I also learned I will never be an accountant; economics supposedly has some importance to my future. I will never enjoy reading Shakespeare and high school is a whirlwind of drama and emotions.
I have spent a lot of time wandering the halls thinking up good excuses to be late again. My grandparents have died one too many times, my cat has used up more then her nine lives and I can't even begin to count how many times I have been to the doctor, dentist or orthodontist.
Coming to school offers no excitement anymore; I have exhausted everything
this school has to offer.
CHS doesn't offer fun and unusual courses such as bowling, swimming, Chinese, sociology, astronomy or career prepping classes such as oceanography and forensic science like Dakota Ridge and Chatfield do. Schools of equivalent size such as Evergreen still offer atypical classes such as AP European History and Social Science Perspectives. Classes at CHS are the typical and boring English, Spanish, history and math.
Even with the already limited schedule choices students are still faced with conflicts and forced to prioritize their classes. When arranging my classes for this year I was unable to enroll in a math course unless I dropped newspaper; I shouldn't be pressured to choose.
Freshman year I wasn't faced with these problems.
Everything as a freshman was new, scary and every day was an adventure. The
school felt like a mansion, tons of classes to choose from, so many new people to meet and you could have pizza and French fries for lunch.
After four years the halls aren't big enough for the plague of freshmen that congest it and I have taken my fair share of gym courses; there isn't anyone new to meet but I am glad that I will never have to eat in the cafeteria again.
So far I have perfected the arts of procrastination, sleeping with my eyes open and getting by with the least amount of work, so this year hasn't been a total waste.
I can think of one thing that would make this last semester more enjoyable.
Making Seminar optional for seniors who don't need the credit would be good. Most of us have already fulfilled our graduation credit requirements so Seminar is pointless and unbeneficial. Many seniors don't read during this time and resent wasting their time taking the class.
At least it's almost over. I will finally be able to escape the never-ending
high school drama of pointless arguments and back stabbing friends.
One day I will probably want to be back but right now the countdown to
graduation is on.


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Submitted By: Brendan Leonard
posted on 2/23/2007 @ 10:37:01 AM
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Don't worry, Kayla. Your senior year of college will be much better. And you can repeat it two or three times without anyone saying anything.
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Submitted By: Erin Williams
posted on 2/22/2007 @ 10:30:03 AM
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Kayla, I felt the same way you do when I graduated. It took a few years before I actually wanted to see people from high school. Almost nine years later, it's very entertaining to think about my time in high school and hear about all the people I graduated with. Good luck.
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Kayla Huddleston

Conifer , CO

Kayla Huddleston has posted 4 blog entries and 1 comment since joining on 5/5/2006. Kayla Huddleston 's average blog rating is 5.
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