While junior year is the most crucial academically, I have found senior year to be the most nerve-wracking and pressure-filled.
Since I was 13 years old, I’ve always dreamt of going to college and living on my own. Now, as a high school senior, my dreams are becoming reality.
For most high school students, junior year entails balancing schoolwork with preparing for the ACTs and SATs. Students often define junior year as the most crucial year.
Growing up in Millburn, where I was a member of a Conservative synagogue, then moving to Warren last year, where we joined a Reform synagogue, I’ve had the experience of seeing firsthand the differences between the two.
I always felt sympathy for teens who have to move in the middle of high school. Then I became one of the people I felt bad for.