Senior Year Reality

By Megan Soto, Staff Reporter

MATTHEW CORCORAN/The Shamrock

Social norms have created an expectation for how a senior’s last year of high school should go. You have to go to a prom, have a traditional graduation ceremony, and partake in different senior events, but what if something happens where all of these expectations are taken away from us?

We stand in a reality where the last moments of our childhood have been taken away from us. The reason why it’s so hard to accept the current situation is because we have been brainwashed with narrow minded societal expectations of high school. But who says we still can’t have the best year of our life?

We might not be having a traditional graduation or prom, but we don’t have to make high school just about that. Over the last 12 years, each and every one of us has created these inexplicable bonds with one another. Bonds that we might not get to treasure in memory through moments like a school dance, but bonds that we can surely celebrate in other ways.

To celebrate, we could create films, collage pictures, and simply be appreciative of what has happened this year. It’s not an event that we expected, but it’s our own celebration.

There’s no point in dwelling over a situation when it can’t change anything. During this dark time when a lot of people are giving up on the idea of senior year, let’s be optimistic.

No one wanted this all to happen, but it did. And we can’t change our circumstances.

Let us all not give up on senior year. Let us be happy for all that has already happened: from senior luau to homecoming, from assemblies to spirit weeks.

Senior year doesn’t have to be over if you don’t want it to be. Let’s celebrate in a different way!