Thinking about being a senior next year freaks me out a bit. Growing up is a thought that also freaks me out. I am kind of like Peter Pan because I never want to grow up. I want to stay young forever. The thought of growing up, graduating, going to college, and being on my own makes me a little uneasy. There will definitely be a big change for me once I graduate.

Next year I will be a senior in high school. Alongside with exciting, it is a nerve racking thought. My senior year I will really need to work my butt off. These past three years of high school so far I have not exactly worked to the level I want to. I am a bit of a slacker with some things. At the beginning of every school year I tell myself that I will work extremely hard to get good grades and work profusely on homework and projects. But at some point near the middle of the school year that kind of just fades away. I start to slack off with everything. My senior year will be different. I need to make my senior year be the best year I have in high school.

After I graduate from high school I plan to go to college in the fall. There are a few colleges that I have in mind and that I have been looking at for a while now. One college that I have been looking at for a long while is Lee University in Tennessee. My brothers wife went to college there after she graduated from high school. Thinking about going to college next year in the fall freaks me out. I am that type of person that wants to stay young forever. I like being young, reckless, and carefree. I cannot really be that type of person in college. I know that I will have to work thirty times harder when I get to college. It makes me nervous. I honestly think that I will never be ready to go to college, but I know that I will have to go after I graduate.

I am a little uneasy at the thoughts of being a senior, graduating from high school, and going to college. I need to get out of my “never want to grow up” phase. I cannot stay that person for the rest of my life, but I know that it will always stick with me. Years and years will pass and I will still be that person that wants to be a kid forever.