Uni High Gargoyle Staff Blog

Wow. Junior year is, for all intents and purposes, over. Finished. Done. No more.

Where did all the time go? Last time I actually thought “Wow, I’m going to be a senior soon!” was at the beginning of the year, and now look where I am. Time flies when you’re having fun, you might say.

I’m sure all rising seniors go through this same thought process, but I’ll still go through it. In less than one year, I’ll have applied (and hopefully been accepted) to colleges. I’ll have gone through the final year of high school. I’ll have run my last cross country meet and attended my final prom.

In a little over a year I’ll be out of the house I’ve lived in for about 14 years. That’s a big deal. I won’t have my parents there to wake me up when I sleep late, or to make me the food I enjoy eating so much. I’ll be living in a dormitory, in a hall with tens of other students who are more or less like me, but whom I may not get along with.

Ah, just thinking about being a senior makes me become less motivated. Is it possible to have senioritis before senior year starts? Because if so, I’m afraid I’ve got the beginnings of it. The summer won’t last forever, and when I come back I’m going to have to go through the exact day-in day-out grind I’ve gone through this year. I’m definitely looking forward to that.

I can once again look forward to getting up, going to school, then going to practice, going home, doing my homework and eating dinner, and then going to bed, only to look forward to the same thing the next day, and the next.

On the other hand, maybe it won’t be so bad. There could be senior year perks that I hadn’t thought about. The senior trip will be cool, for instance. I think for now I’ll just try to put it out of my mind until senior year actually starts, and just enjoy my summer.

… The last summer in high school!

— Carl Zielinski