Krystal Wayne is writing a new column about how it feels to be a senior about to graduate. Feel free to tell us your own reflections by writing a letter to the editor.

For seniors who take their future into consideration, a typical day consists of a lot of atypical things. Seniors now are submitting orders for caps and gowns, buying yearbooks, searching for apartments and searching for the favorite teacher to fill out that awesome teacher recommendation. Seniors, most importantly, are filling out applications.

We fill out applications for jobs, applications for school, and applications for tests, for apartments, for scholarships and for loans. Each application has about 50 questions on your history, then there’s a part for your grades, your parents’ history, your family income, and personnel statements. It’s all so tedious that eventually I just do not care anymore.

Now, with the impending graduation night lulling closer and closer, seniors are getting together and participating in fund raisers. Just recently we had a senior car wash (against all rules of practicality really). In order to put on a fundraiser however, there comes lots of planning. This means that seniors must attend senior meetings, which take up our lunch period and our free time. Then seniors must fundraise. In terms of a car wash, seniors have to sell tickets. If lives were not stressful enough, there is now the addition of fundraising.

Now, a senior’s main job is conning parents out of their hard earned money. Seniors are great spenders. Unfortunately, few are good earners, and even fewer are good savers.

So, seniors are either spending or raising money, filling out applications, apartment/house shopping, attending meetings or trying to make sure they remain eligible to graduate on stage. During this time of the year, we seniors just never settle down. As the days turn to weeks, and weeks to months, one may find himself to be very tired. Unfortunately, the “tired” can escalate into something more: senioritis.