Seniors Reflect On All The Interesting Things They Could Have Done Instead of Studying

As their final year at Stuyvesant comes to a close, seniors are beginning to look back on the last four years, bringing up feelings of nostalgia, achievement, but most of all, of wasted time. Looking back on the hundreds of hours of time spent studying, reading, finessing papers, and pretending to be awake in chemistry, many seniors share a sense of regret at the fact that they have spent the past four years doing nothing outside the realm of school and strictly college-related extracurriculars.

Senior Aaron Lu summed up the emotions of many among the graduating class. “It’s ridiculous,” he grumbled. “I haven’t seen my family or the sun for three and a half years,” he went on.

As they enter their second term, more time is freed up and seniors are struggling to figure out how to deal with the reality of not having stress and overload fill every second of their time. We found senior Grace Kachinsky making snow angels in shredded piles of her extensive notes from junior year and absentmindedly tossing her graphing calculator back and forth with the half-asleep Lara Webb. “This is great!” Grace yawned. “There are no obligations and I don’t have to show up to anything on time! I just wish that all of high school was like this.”

However, when asked what they would have done if they had had more time over the last few years, the seniors were less clear. “Um…one of those social type things,” Grace said. “Like real-life Facebook,” Lara interjected.

Despite a widespread sense of contrition, not all seniors feel like they have wasted the best years of their lives. “I for one don’t know what all the fuss is about,” Arjun Fawcett sniffed. “If I had a life, how would I maintain this 4.1 GPA?” he continued, showing off a freshly printed, up-to-date copy of his transcript, which he pinned neatly on his bedroom wall next to 739 others.

To further investigate the thoughts of the seniors on the matter, The Spectator planned on sending a representative to Senior Prom. However, upon arrival, it emerged that all the seniors were planning on going home early to cram on the correct protocol for graduation, fearing the effects it might have on their participation grade if they were not sufficiently prepared.

Though they did nothing but study for all of high school, seniors can rest easy knowing that they are now free as birds with no more textbooks and tests holding them back. “I can’t wait!” Aaron Lu rhapsodized. “I’m going to have so much free time, and I’ll sleep for 10 hours a night,” he continued. “Anyways, gotta go to my Cornell orientation, so bye, losers! I’m off to enjoy the rest of my life with no more stress!”