By Jordan Schartz, Flyer social media editor

A new school year has started, homework has begun, and sleep is getting minimal. Starting this school year was like any other year; except when I told myself, I’m a senior. When they say these four years will fly by, they weren’t kidding. Just yesterday is seemed like I was walking in the front doors of Carroll, being welcomed by the upperclassmen. I never thought I would actually be the one welcoming the freshmen.

Senior perks keep crossing my mind as I sit in class daydreaming about the future. Sitting front row in the student section, the senior faculty basketball game, getting out of school two weeks early, and all of the other privileges that come with senior year. On the first day of Mr. Barber’s class, he told us that was our first “wake up” of the year. And we only have 167 more “wake ups” to go.

This fall all of us seniors begin college applications, college visits, and we begin to think about what we want the rest of our lives to look like. I know every day college and the future crosses my mind, and to be honest it stresses me out just having the idea in my head. And I feel as if in the midst of all of that, people begin to live in the future, and not take in what all of senior year has to offer.

Most of all the advice I have been given about senior year has been about taking advantage of every opportunity that Bishop Carroll has to offer. Try something new, go to every football game, try out for the play, put yourself out there and show Carroll what you want to be remembered for. College is coming soon, but it isn’t here yet. Live in the present.