Senior Scaries — THE EDGE

Oh no. Not this. Anything but this! With less than a hundred days between the class of 2024 and graduation… time is ticking and we can feel it. Senior scaries… it’s with a heavy heart that we report the rumors are true (senior scaries are real) and they’re here to stay. For any confused underclassman, let us explain. Senior scaries, the opposite of senioritis, is best described as the panic you feel on a Sunday morning — a little hungover, with a little too much work to do, with no cream cheese bagel in sight (terrifying, right? Right). Senior scaries feel like every Sunday morning you have looked around your destroyed bedroom and exclaimed “This can’t be” as your room tells a story of exactly what you did the night prior. Feeling wildly unprepared, this feeling of panic on Sundays has crept into our weekdays and Saturday afternoons and is best described as senior scaries.

It feels like just yesterday we were announcing our commitment to Elon, our intended majors on @highschoolseniorclass Instagram pages and getting locked out of our freshman dorms. Things moved quickly, we joined clubs and organizations, found lifelong friends, went abroad and found our niches and interests along the way. We started calling Elon home. We found ourselves and good people and fell in love with the process.

And now? Now it’s time to say goodbye to the longest and largest chapter of our lives thus far: academia. A system that has provided us with comfort, community and purpose for most of our lives… it’s safe to say that we feel panicked and frightened about the upcoming change. The weight of “the post-grad world” (whatever that means) hangs over us like a mean, judgemental dark cloud. With all of our FDOC photos behind us, the only thing left to plan for is graduation photos and a new chapter that promises lots of change and uncertainty (and stress and expectations and other worries.)

If you are having trouble enjoying the last few dinners, dances, chapters and other ceremonial crap without crying or losing it like us, we recommend loud music and solo dance parties in your bedroom late at night. In more extreme cases of senior scaries, we recommend trying tai chi, water aerobics, eating Smitty’s on a park bench, taking a nap, playing cards, drinking cocktails (in moderation) and seeking out sweet treats daily. If none of the above works, of course, there is always counseling.

Good luck to the class of 2024! We see you and your panic (game recognizes game.) Meet you on a park bench to eat at Smitty’s next Wednesday at 2. We’ll already be there. Love, your favorite *anxiety-prone* Edge seniors.