WIldcard: Senior Year

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Ever since I was a freshmen everyone told me that senior year was the best.  It was the year that everyone took easy classes and just had fun for their last year of high school.  Going through my first three years of high school I continued to look forward to senior year because everyone made it sound like a breeze.  As a freshman I imagined it as a break year before leaving home and going off to college.  Don't get me wrong I am definitely enjoying senior year so far, but it is not at all what I was expecting it to be.  
I have never in my life felt as stressed as I have these past few months.  Now a days you cannot just take all electives for your senior year because it does not look good for college.  So as I walked into school in the beginning of September I faced my schedule of honors classes and academic electives.  Honors calculus alone is enough to get me stressed out and then adding all my other classes to that is a lot.  I have always taken honors classes throughout high school, but for some reason this year seems like a lot more work than the previous years. 
With all of the work from my classes then I had to worry about college applications.  Thankfully most of the colleges I applied to were from the Common Application, but it still required a lot of time and work.  With these applications I pretty much had to fill out my entire life.  I listed every extra curricular activity and community service I have done the past four years.  
On top of all of these things it was soccer season.  Soccer season is always very tiring and a lot of work, but this year was extra important.  With 10 starting seniors on the team that have been playing together since a young age we were expected to have a very successful season.  There was a lot of stress on the field as well because everyone expected us to do good.  We would have made ourselves, our coaching staff, and Central look bad if we would not have had a good season.
I was extremely overwhelmed these first few months of school.  All the work, college, soccer, and deciding whether I want to play soccer in college had me at my wits end.  Luckily these past few weeks have gotten a lot better.  I finished applying to college, ended up with all A's and B's on my report card, and we had a very successful soccer season.  Everything is starting to turn around and I am slowly becoming less stressed.  I went for an overnight visit to William Paterson University and stayed with the soccer team.  It was a great experience and really made whole view on college a lot better.  I received my acceptance letter from William Paterson a few days ago and a huge weight was lifted from my shoulders.  I feel like I can finally start enjoying senior year more now that the hardest part is over.