1) Read as many thought-provoking, controversial, and interesting reads as you can because you will never again get such intellectual commentary from professors and free time to read classic novels like this ever again. I, for one, have works by Camus, Sartre, and Nabokov on the top of my list.
2) Spend your days with the people you love the most. With only three quarters, which is a mere thirty weeks in the span of your young life, share your time with positive, supportive, and good-spirited people who are going to make your senior year the most enjoyable and who you care about the most. Don’t leave any room for bitter, envious, or untrustworthy humans.
3) Be kind. To the people who gave you attitude when you asked them for a favor, to the ones who said hurtful things just to make themselves feel less small, to the humans with more hate than love inside them. Odds are, you aren’t going to see these people after 22, so why not leave them with kindness that could possibly be kept and passed on by them when they’re a little older and more settled.
4) But don’t take shit. If someone is sending bad energy, making life less simple than it needs to be, or just not acting like the friends which you desire to have, then there is nothing wrong with distancing yourself from these kinds of people. Senior year is for constant fun, not negativity.
5) Have a ball and don’t be sorry. Whether fun for you is surfing all day or making homemade sangrias for your friends, me being guilty of the latter, have as many good times and memorable experiences as possible. Because after all, what is our life without the blissful stuff.
Although there is probably still a good amount of stuff that I want to eventually add to this list, I think that this hits the most important points regarding my goals for the most amazing final year in Santa Barbs. Til next time, chickadees. Peace & love, Nikita Sara
