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5 Things that Make a Senior Feel Old

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at BC chapter.

Now that I’m in my second semester of senior year, I am really starting to feel old. Whether it’s watching freshman look at the campus map or hearing the pounding music from Walsh, I’m realizing that I am slowly but surely being pushed out of the college lifestyle. Here are 5 things that make a second semester senior feel like a senior citizen:

1. Having juniors at the same bar as you: It feels like yesterday my friends and I all turned 21, and now the bars are filled with younger classmen.

2. Late night: I used to frequent the chicken finger line, but now that I don’t have a meal plan, I can’t partake in the Friday night Lower ordeal without feeling out of place.

3. Dorm parties: its hard to believe that my friends and I would get ready to stand in a miserably sweaty Walsh room and listen to deafening music, and worst of all, consider it fun.

4. Being a TA: I used to think the TAS’s for my classes knew all the answers. My eyes were really opened when I realized my friends who are TA’s (including myself) tend to wish for empty office hours in the fear of actually having to answer a question.

5. Not stressing about school: I used to color code my notes in my Business Law textbook and now I can’t even bring myself to put effort into my reflection papers for Theology of Food (highly recommend).

Happy last semester seniors!

Hi! I'm Shannon Brink and I'm currently a freshman at BC. I'm from a small town in New Jersey, and I love being outdoors and traveling with friends and family. I'm the youngest of three, and living in a male dominated house where football typically takes over the dinner conversation, it's refreshing to have an outlet to talk about things that genuinely interest me and are relevant to my life as a clueless freshman trying to learn the ropes of college.