{"id":44238,"date":"2016-10-08T22:02:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T04:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/?p=44238"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:27:40","slug":"the-truth-behind-senior-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/?p=44238","title":{"rendered":"The Truth Behind Senior Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Searcy (LP) Senior year- the one school year that everybody is eager to take on, and more importantly, be done with. <\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone imagines senior year as a nice breeze of fresh air, as the last few seconds on a field of a game that you\u2019ve already won, but you\u2019re waiting on the buzzer to sound, as fun, and free, and calm. At least, that\u2019s what ASU freshman and Searcy High School Alumni, Maddie Cossitt, \u00a0thought before she actually started her senior year. \u00a0She soon found out that senior year wasn\u2019t full of thornless roses like she had hoped. Maddie had a faraway look in her eye, but it was anything but dreamy when she said, \u201cDuring the middle of senior year, I had a mental break down. I had so much going on that I just snapped.\u201d Maddie had done what most seniors do pack their schedules \u00a0full with the roughest classes, \u00a0serve within the highest positions in all of their clubs they participate in, and \u00a0take on so much responsibility, and then proceed to \u00a0sum up their reasoning with a simple wave of a hand and a sigh that contains the words, \u00a0\u201cit will look great on college applications.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\"fullsizerender-2\"Current senior, Madison Holiday, followed in the footsteps of many before her and booked herself to the absolute limit. Once again, she was unaware of the stress she was signing herself up for. \u00a0<\/span>When asked about her feelings towards her senior year Madison said, \u201cSenior year is supposed to be one for the books. Walking into senior year I felt this rush of success, like I was already walking onto the stage at graduation. Now, I\u2019m 9 weeks in, and the only success I feel is when I actually make it to school on time.\u201d She\u2019s currently struggling. She claims she can sum up senior year in one accurate \u00a0phrase, \u00a0\u201cI hope the tassel is worth the hassle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Senior year was stressful because of the decisions they were being forced to make. \u00a0Decisions that concerned life after high school, and the financial stress that came with those future plans, as well as how to get where they hoped to be. That stress added more to their workload than any class could.\u00a0<\/span>Regardless of how dark and gloomy senior year can be, there is life after high school. The pressures weighing one down will eventually either subside, or dissolve altogether.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Searcy (LP) Senior year- the one school year that everybody is eager to take on, and more importantly, be done with. Everyone imagines senior year as a nice breeze of fresh air, as the last few seconds on a field of a game that you\u2019ve already won, but you\u2019re waiting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,53,19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-about","category-community","category-news","category-opinion-and-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44265,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44238\/revisions\/44265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}