One word. Senioritis.

I have it bad, so bad. My fellow seniors will understand what I mean. The Monday after spring break, I must have pressed the snooze button on my alarm about four times.

I told myself that I would go to the library and study. I ended up falling asleep in a chair, and I didn’t wake up until four hours later … This is a true story, y’all.

It has started to get really hard to pay attention in class, and I’m beginning to avoid checking my emails altogether, and I just can’t find the motivation to study for my exams. I have a little more than a month left of my senior year, and the senioritis is too real.

With this comes all the questions we all know too well. Are you going to work after graduation? Are you trying to get into internships? What about grad school? Have you taken the MCAT, the PCAT, the LSAT, the GRE??? The questions are never ending. Can I just graduate first please?

It’s getting to that point in the semester where instead of scrolling through power points, I’m scrolling through dresses online trying to figure out what I’m going to wear for graduation.

Instead of listing the pathogens that I need to memorize for my microbial pathogenesis exam, I’m making my “Senior Year Bucket List.”

So far on the list I have: walk on the field at Neyland, paint the rock, sneak onto the roof of the library, climb the rock wall, etc … basic things like that (by the way, I’m open to suggestions for the bucket list).

With all that being said, I’m going to have to find a way to power through the next five weeks. Allah knows it’s not going to be easy.

Hawa Henderson is a senior in microbiology. She can be reached at [email protected].