Advice for seniors

Written by Chase Glenister

It’s November, and the feelings of stress and fatigue are once again on the rise for seniors, due to college applications and SATs or ACTs. Here are just a few facts and pieces of advice that may help you ease the stress of November:

For all seniors applying to CSUs: use CSUMentor! It’s easy, fast, and everything can be done online! You just have to fill out one application, and the site does the rest, excepting Cal Poly and Ponoma, and even then, it is made much easier by CSUMentor. Visit and apply at www.csumentor.edu and get things done.

“Don’t slack off. I know a few people who slacked off and got rescinded from colleges,” WHS alum Jonathan Pham said. “Make the most out of senior year. It’s your final year in high school.”

Don’t view all the assignments, chores and applications you have to do as a whole, or else you will stress out about how much you have to do. Take it in little bits; view it as a staircase. Take one step at a time.

If you are having a lot of trouble with college applications, go get help. Our school counselors can be a mine of information. If you are interested in scholarships, see the career counselor, Michelene Wittmer.

It is an established, yet not well-known, fact that getting your eight to ten hours of sleep is more important than a night’s worth of study. While sleeping, your brain records the events of the day, integrating the events of the day for future use. If you stay up all night, you won’t integrate all you studied into your memory. Thus, go to sleep!