College Daze Deadlines Make It Tough To Think Through One Of Life’s Toughest Choices

I am so frustrated.

Every choice I need to make, tears the limbs on my body in a different direction. My senior year has blasted upon me. I want to do so many thing, yet I am tied down by deadlines.

College deadlines.

The decisions I make now will affect my life for the next four years. Scholarships, applications, visits, essays, interviews, SATs … the list goes on. Colleges expect so much out of seniors that we don’t have time to do what we want to do our senior year.

We’re expected to keep up our grades, take Advanced Placement courses and earn high test scores. All this while being involved in student government, sports, music, debate and ongoing community service work.

The students who can handle all of these responsibilities make it into college. But do they have any sanity left to go through four more years of school?

The “well-rounded” 4.0 student government president who plays on varsity and goes to state in band and makes it to nationals in debate finally earns the right to enter college. Of course, the student does this while filling out scholarships and admission applications and flying all over the country trying to find the right college.

The pressures on seniors about to enter college is unbelievable. Even if they began their search in seventh grade, they have tons of work to do their senior year. Is there any way to get around societal, parental, collegiate and self-expectations and have some fun?

Seniors need a break before they explode into a thousand pieces, or at least as many as the number of college fliers they have received.