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Freshman vs. Senior Year There are a lot of things that can change in a person through their years in high school. As a person progresses through high school grade by grade, there are many changes taking place. In these four years a student grows and becomes a stronger student and overall person in life. There are many challenges and obstacles a person goes through these years which is why freshman and senior years of high school are very different. Although they’re only a couple years apart and both occur in high school, a senior is more confident, they set the standards for the rest of the school and overall more mature and responsible than freshman. A senior is much more confident walking around the school as opposed to a freshman. In the hallways of high school you can always pick out the seniors from the freshman because the seniors tend to walk with confidence and authority. This comes from the idea that the seniors are the “big fish” and superior to the rest of the school. Also, the seniors know where everything is since they have been there the longest and are comfortable with the school. Freshmen are a lot more nervous and walk looking very small with very little confidence. They are a lot less likely to know where everything is and haven’t grown comfortable with the school yet. Another reason why senior year differs from freshman year is the fact that the seniors set the standards for the rest of the school. The other grades look up to the seniors and pretty much follow what they do. At football games, the seniors control the student section and tell them what to wear and the rest of the school pretty much goes along and does what the seniors tell them. The freshmen get very little say and usually get the worst of everything. At football games or other sporting events they have to sit in the very back of the student section. All the other grades make fun of the freshman joking with the idea of “fresh meat”. With being a freshman comes no or very little power within the student body. Overall the seniors are more mature and have more responsibility as opposed to freshmen. Senior year the students have taken or are enrolled in AP classes that are not offered as a freshman. These AP classes meet college level learning, so seniors are learning at a much higher level than freshman. Senior year is also the time where a student needs to figure out what he or she would want to do after high school. In most cases the next step after high school is college. Seniors need to work on college applications along with their heavy load of school work and after school activities. This is a load on a senior with very little help from their parents, seniors become more independent. By senior year a student has learned how to have time management and handle all that needs to be done and meet deadlines with very little help. Seniors have grown up, usually have a job and a car and are paying for gas and essential things in their life. With all this responsibility and maturity shapes a senior. Freshmen are still kids and learning. They are still immature and depend on their parents for everything. Senior year and freshman year are very different in the fact that seniors are more independent, mature and confident than freshman and seniors “rule the school”. Freshmen have very little part in school-spirited activities and get looked down on.