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Period Of Translucence: Overcoming Obstacles In Life

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At certain times in life there exists this period of translucence, in which the opaque walls of security and comfortability start dissolving into a fragile barrier that separates who we were from who we will be. This extremely exaggerated description perfectly expresses the foreign yet familiar territory of senior year, the period in which we half adults are left suspended in limbo. The time when all conversations have been reduced down to a repetitive formula, consisting of whether you've applied to college, where you've been accepted, and when graduation will be. Motivated only by the prospects of lunch and escape, we trudge on in anticipation of the future. There are a lot of misconceptions formed prior to senior year about the workload,

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