How to Enjoy Your Last Weeks as a College Senior

So, you find yourself as a senior in college with only a few weeks left of school, bombarded with assignments and last-minute essays. During these stressful times, it's easy to feel weighed down and overwhelmed, like you have time for nothing but eating, breathing, and sleeping homework. Spring has sprung, and the end of your college days is near. Well, seniors, here is your reminder to still enjoy your last few weeks, along with 4 tips on how you can make it happen! 

Take Advantage of the Student Life 

Going through the racing emotions of nearing graduation, the motions of homework, and fretting over the future you don't have answers for can be put off for a minute. Set your worries aside and soak up your last weeks as a student! Sure, everything might be stressful, but you're still a student for a little longer. Stay up late, have sleepovers with friends, enjoy a lazy day, or even eat all the food you can muster from the dining hall. Now is the time to enjoy all these little perks of student life you might not have for much longer. Long story short, enjoy life and be spontaneous! Make some memories you can look back on years down the road. 

Embrace Old and New Friendships 

College is a time when you meet tons of new people and form friendships that you may or may not have for the rest of your life. With graduation approaching fast, you might only have a little time post-graduation to see them, especially if they move back home. So put that work aside, forget about that "looming paper" for a while, and hang out with your friends. Accept their dinner invite or stay up all night on a Wednesday to have a movie marathon. Get in as much time as you can with them before you step into that next chapter of your life. Along the way, you might meet new people and form more friendships that support you through this ending transition. 

Revisit Old Memories 

Another excellent way to end this chapter of your life is by getting together with your friends and re-telling old stories of each other or revisiting old dorms and classrooms you used to hang out in. You may have a hangout spot off campus you used to frequent, which you could visit one more time. Also, looking at old pictures of you and your friends over the college years compared to now can be one more fun thing to do together. As important as it is to make new memories during these last few weeks, it's also nice to reminisce on the past ones. 

Create Your Own Yearbook  

One of the most unique and fun activities you and your friends can do is to create your own yearbook or scrapbook! Yearbooks were some of the most exciting parts of ending a school year in middle and high school. You got to look at your classmates' pictures and sign sweet little notes in the back. Even though you might not receive one in college, who's stopping you from making your own? Get together with your friends and cut out pictures, create backgrounds, and use mementos or funky accessories to decorate your own yearbook. After that, you and your friends can all sign each other's yearbook and have something always to look back on. 

Despite the hustle and bustle of the end of the year, it's always important to allow yourself the time to soak it in and enjoy your last few weeks of college. For most, it's only an experience you get once! Fretting over end-of-the-year assignments and the fear of the future is not the way you should end your senior year. End it by making new memories, revisiting old ones, and spending quality time with friends. You got this, Bearcats, and congratulations on your upcoming graduation!