Saturday, September 10, 2016
Senior Year
Time is a funny thing. I remember looking at the senior class when I was a freshman thinking, wow those kids look like adults- and I was right. They looked like regular people who I could envision in a business meeting or shopping at a grocery store alone. Some of the boys had grown out beards over the summer and all of them could drive. After field hockey one day, my team finished earlier than the previously scheduled practice, so my coach just told us we could leave. It was such a foreign idea to me, that when we were done working we could leave. You mean you aren't gonna wait here while my mom comes to pick me up? You mean I'm allowed to go off by myself? You trust me to choose what I want to do with my time? As a senior, I've gotten used to the freedom. Now, I even get a little angry when I am held in class after we are done working. I'm sure that the freshmen look to me the same way that I did to the class of 2014, but I'm not an adult. That's how time works.
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I really enjoyed reading your post. I think its very true that I feel I look the same as I did freshman year, but when I picture the seniors from the year we were freshmen, I see them as adults. I suppose that seeing everyone almost everyday, including yourself, the changes and aging happens so gradually day by day is seems to have not occurred at all. Thats how time works.
ReplyDeleteHow do you feel about senior privileges? That is an increase in our freedom, but for me at least, it feels only a natural to be given more rights. It is crazy to think that soon we will be legal adults, in the same clothes and classrooms as we were at fourteen and fifteen.