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Zero Draft Multi-Genre Essay Surviving Senior Year ** Cover Letter  ** For this essay I am trying to express the feelings and items involved with being a high school senior. There are so many great things that happen during this time in your life and I want to let others know all about them. I also felt that this was a rather easy topic for me to write about because I went through all of the fun and excitement just last year. The purpose of this essay is to depict all of the major aspects of senior year, it would be really good for younger people who have not yet reached this point in their lives so that they can look forward to it when it comes. It may even help encourage students to stay in school. This essay has been pretty simple to write so far. Most of it has just been things that came to me so easily. It helps that everything that I am writing is from personal experience. Also, not having to worry about writing formally makes it a lot easier. Hopefully the rest of the essay will go as smoothly. ** Almost There  ** Reaching Grasping We’re almost there So close I can Taste it   Touch it    I swear “We actually did it!” –Lindsay Lohan “The Parent Trap” ** Schedule  ** Blue Day 1 Interior Design 2 Fashion 3 Pre-Calc 4 Novels Gold Day 5 Fiber Design 6 SRT 7 Government 8 Creative Writing Definition ** __ Sen-ior  __ ** Spelled Pronunciation [seen-yer] -adjective 1. of higher or the highest rank or standing. 2. (in American schools, colleges, and universities) of or pertaining to students in their final year or to their class. ** Tips  ** 1. Take a breather You may become stressed with all that you need to accomplish before the year is up, make sure you take time to relax and put away some time for yourself. 2. Don’t procrastinate Don’t put off doing your homework or applying to colleges. The year will be over before you know it and you will be out of time 3. Attend the prom It’s a night that you can completely blow off all stress and homework and just have the night to yourself with your friends and/or date. 4. Take college applications seriously (first) If you didn’t start applying your junior year, you need to get on it so that you will know which colleges to visit. 5. Stay rested Make sure that you get the requested 8 hours of sleep so that you are at your best during school. 6. Don’t fall prey to senioritis This horrible disease strikes down many seniors during their second semester, don’t let this happen to you, you’ve worked so hard up to this point don’t stop yet, you’ll be done before you know it. 7. Don’t stay home on Saturday Go out and have some fun, if you spend all your time on homework you’ll get stressed and fall victim to senioritis 8. Spend time with friends and family You’ll most likely be moving away next year; you need to make memories to last while you’re gone. 9. Don’t take college applications to seriously (last) College is important, but don’t let it take over your life you’ll just get stressed. ** Recipe  ** Focus Will-power To-do list ** Dear Diary **(date) Dad has started pushing me to apply to colleges. I have no idea where I want to go to school, how do I know where to apply? The only things I know for certain are that I want to stay in Indiana, pretty close to home and I want to study Creative Writing. Of course I will apply to Purdue, because that is Daddy’s school, but they don’t really have the program that I am looking for. I guess I need to do a little bit of research to find out what schools are best for Creative Writing, find out which ones offer this as a major. My next question is whether or not I should apply to IU or not. I would never go there unless I got a full ride scholarship (not likely) because if I did I would never hear the end of it. However, I have heard that IU is rather difficult to get into and it would be a nice ego burst if I did get in. Next week there is something going on called College-Go-Week where most public colleges in Indiana are offering free applications if they are turned in that week so I will most likely apply to as many colleges as I can that week. This way I can get Daddy off of my back and save money in the process. Sounds like a win-win situation to me. ** Conversation  ** “Can you believe that we’re seniors already?” I asked my best friend, Kaitlyn. “It seems like just yesterday that we were freshmen.” “I know! It’s so hard to believe that we’re about to graduate.” She replied. “But I am so ready. I wish I were going away for college like you are. I need to get out of the house and away from my parents.” “Well, you’ll still be out of the house quite a bit.” I assured her. “Even though you’ll still be living at home you’ll be either working or attending class, so in a way you are getting away from your parents. And as long as you do well next year at Ivy Tech you can transfer for you sophomore year and get out of the house.” “I know, I’m going to have to work extra hard.” “You can do it! I have faith in you.” ** Senior on the bus  ** I’m finally a senior, that means I have reign on the bus. I get to sit in the back don’t have to share a seat with anyone (unless I chose to) I have waited four years for this, the opportunity to rule the bus to be the oldest This feeling of importance and leadership. Who’d have thought it would feel this good