Once again, the end of the school year is approaching. Year after year, students are filled with feelings of excitement about the summer, and dread about moving farther along in the high school process.

   Each grade feels something a little different. Freshman are excited about their first summer as a high schooler. Sophomores are excited about possible job opportunities. Juniors are starting to feel nervous and a little bittersweet about starting their last year of high school, and seniors are filled with 100 different emotions about entering the real world.

   But what is the best way to spend these last few weeks of school? The UV is going up, and grades are going down as we get closer to a seemingly unreachable summer.

   As assignments become fewer and farther between, opportunities to raise your grades become more scarce. But there is always something you can do. While movie-watching and napping become regular class activities during these last couple of weeks, you always have the opportunity to ask for ways to bring up your grade.

   Schoolwork aside, everyone has plans for the summer. Things they are itching to check off their bucket list. How do you spend your time lying in wait? The anticipation can be unbearable.

   Waiting for that fateful day on June 10th can seem like more than a tedious task. Somehow these weeks leading up to summer vacation can feel like the longest ones of the year. And then the summer flies by, and out of nowhere, we’re picking out our first-day-of-school outfits again.

   The 70-80 day break from school feels much shorter, but that just makes it all the more valuable. Spending day and night out with your friends, sitting by the pool, and just having pure fun is what summer is all about. Not having to bear the burden and responsibility of schoolwork is what everyone craves by the time June rolls around. But it only lasts so long, so you have to make it count.