Focus on the Future

by Morgan Sanders 

With less than three months left of school, there are many things for seniors to be thinking about, where to go to college, where they will live and financial aid just to list a few. 

As soon as students enter high school, they are forced into thinking about what they want to pursue after high school. 

Freshman year, students take a class called Careers where they learn how to make a resumé and  do activites to help them prepare for possible future jobs. 

Sophomore year, students go on a job shadow for English class to learn more about what they think they want to do. This is important because it puts a student in the atmosphere of the job they are planning to do and will show them if they even like it.   

Junior year, students are allowed to go on college visits to learn more about where they would like to go to college. Senior year, students go on college visits and need to find out where they are going to go to college and what for. 

College is expensive. Right now, seniors are working on receiving as much free money as they can from scholarships. The community and colleges themselves gave out $278,000 in scholarships last year. There are many ways to achieve help to pay for college. Students must take advantage of the opportunities they are given. It will help in the future once they finish college. They will be able to start their lives with less debt than if they didn’t put in any effort during high school.