I’m about to get down on my hands and knees and kiss this cold floor goodbye.

How I’ve yearned for this time to come: Senior year is finally disintegrating away into oblivion. My life, along with a hundred or so others, is about to change forever with the overwhelming summer already planned and the completely different lifestyle coming up in the fall. With all this to look forward to, I’m left with a sickening desire to get out. Working 25 hours a week at a job has been taking its hold on me and to top it off, school work isn’t reducing at all. These emotions are consuming my mind and the time couldn’t be moving any slower. My grades are beginning to slip and I’m attending class only when I feel like it. I’ve entered the phase of life known as senior slump.

I’m so close to the end it hurts. Shuffling through the halls everyday is exhausting in itself. There really isn’t anything to worry about, except passing a few classes. I’ve made it into Virginia Commonwealth University, so I’m just waiting, and waiting, and waiting.

Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate my high school career and the people who helped me through it; it’s just the tease of my prize floating in the distance that is making me a little crazy. Of course, there are things that I’m going to miss about this place, whether it’s the familiarity with my friends and family or the expectations I have of this place.

Obstacles are still resurfacing, making me more nervous than ever. I need to get past all this nonsense and be done with this place. With the thought in mind that it is so close, and knowing that I can do this, I’ll be fine. When it finally comes to an end, the realization will set in that I have completed high school and everything will be wonderful again.