- Senior Assassin:
A game of secrecy, betrayal, and water guns, Senior Assassin is a uniting activity among the graduating class that brings people together with the shared goal of making wholesome, playful, and lasting memories. It’s a tradition I look forward to witnessing every year: as an underclassman, I found much joy in watching the seniors partake in some harmless fun as they savored their final moments as high schoolers.
2. Decision Day
May 1 marks the day when most high school seniors have committed to a college and wear the merch of where they’re going. Most importantly, it’s when we feel the most pride and relief as many of us have spent four long years getting good grades, doing extracurriculars, and pondering our unknown futures. Still, I imagine Decision Day to be slightly bittersweet: I feel like it’s going to hit me that my friends and I are graduating and won’t be seeing each other every day.
3. Senior Sunday
Seniors. They are beauty, and they are grace. And Senior Sunday is the optimal time for them to show off their lovely faces. While I thoroughly enjoy the floods of artsy photos that take over my Instagram feed every week or so, it can sometimes become repetitive to scroll and only see portraits. However, it’s a great way to commemorate our journeys through high school by showcasing the amazing people we’ve grown to be in an aesthetic manner.
4. Kids Backpacks
In recent years, it has become a trend to wear a kiddie backpack during your senior year in high school. Whether it be to reminisce about the simple times of our childhoods or to end this era of our education in full circle, I completely resonate with the sentiment. While indulging in this trend is fun, I would argue most seniors are buying these backpacks only to wear them for a year, which can be seen as wasteful and overconsuming.
5. Senior Sunrise
I think many will agree with me when I say Senior Sunrise is one of the most pointless senior traditions. Maybe it’s because I’m not a morning person, but on the first day of senior year when I forced myself to attend Senior Sunrise, it felt like a mistake. You basically just stand and then spend 20 minutes poorly gathering into a 25 to take the class picture without any proper instruction.
