We've now entered the last quarter of the 2007-08 school year, and you can't help but hear all the seniors expressing their enthusiasm in nearly being done with high school.

I, on the other hand, have five more quarters to complete until the end of my high school career. Nonetheless, I'm extremely excited for what's to come.

I will admit: The last quarter of every school year is hard. The weather is getting nicer, and it feels like all you can do is sit in class and daydream about the wonderful days you will spend outside, carefree, during your three-monthlong summer break.

Summer is so close, and (although maybe not as extreme as cases of senioritis) it takes a sincere effort to convince ourselves to study, to not procrastinate, and to generally just turn things in on time. By the time finals come around, thoughts of summer warmth and homework-less nights invade the space in our brains we once used to store difficult equations and theories.

But I'm about to be a senior. I'm about to be in the oldest and most privileged class (at least when it comes to assembly-seating arrangements and Agora schedules), and I absolutely can't wait.

At many other schools, freshmen have a handful of electives to choose from for their class schedule, but at Uni some courses are so desirable that only seniors who turn in their registration packets early are able to get them.

Even when you're a junior, you shouldn't expect to be in Physics B and C, Anthropology, Philosophy, World Since 1945 … and the list could go on. So this year when I received my registration packet I wanted practically all the classes! My mother insisted, after I had signed myself up for approximately 15 electives, that I would need a lighter workload, but I couldn't even think of a class I would want to drop!

On top of receiving the classes you have been longing to take, as a senior you also get priority when it comes to your Agora schedule. Not only will there be essentially no possibility of your Agora schedule being filled with academic and/or undesirable classes, but your schedule will most likely consist of all your first- or second-choice classes.

And for those juniors who wanted to go on the Habitat for Humanity trip but didn't get in, they will have a higher likelihood of going their senior year.

Everyone will be younger than you. You get the opportunity to be a varsity sports team captain, you can become president of that club you've been attending since freshman year, you're able to go on your senior trip, and to take a fun and expressive senior picture (as well as having your baby photo, and half a yearbook page dedicated fully to you, your favorite quotes, and your senior will).

Of course your senior year will also be a time to fill out college applications, and to begin considering things like "What do you want to do with the rest of your life?" on top of struggling to overcome senioritis.

At the same time, though, I continue imagining it as potentially one of the best years of my high school career, leading up to college (which, itself, is extremely exciting).

There is just one quarter and one summer between me and senior year.