Build Your Senior Year Bucket List
Okay, let’s make a senior-year bucket list.
Not the Pinterest version.
You don’t need 30 elaborate things you’ve never done before. You probably don’t even need to leave your hometown.
Think about the things you actually want to do before you graduate.
Maybe there’s a restaurant you and your friends always talk about going to. Maybe you want to go to every home football game. Maybe there’s a school event you’ve never gone to but want to try. Maybe you want to take a road trip with friends, have a movie night, go to prom, perform in your last concert, or finally try something you’ve kept putting off.
But here’s another question:
What are you going to wish you had done if you spend the whole year focused on college applications and getting to graduation?
That’s worth thinking about.
Your bucket list also doesn’t have to be about doing more. Maybe you want to spend more time with a specific group of friends. Maybe you want to reconnect with someone you’ve lost touch with. Maybe you want to make time for something you genuinely enjoy before your schedule changes next year.
And while you’re making your list, think about the people you’re going to miss.
Not in a dramatic way. Just realistically.
Your friends may go to different colleges. Your favorite teacher won’t be down the hall anymore. Your family dynamics will probably change when you move out. Even if you stay close to home, your day-to-day life is going to look different.
Is there someone you want to make more time for this year?
Something you want to learn?
A place you want to go?
A tradition you want to start?
A memory you want to make?
Write it down.
And then actually put a few of those things on your calendar.
Because “we should totally do that before we graduate” is how you end up realizing in April that nobody ever made a plan.
What’s on your senior-year bucket list?
Leave a comment on this post and give us one thing you want to do before graduation. And if you’re looking for ideas—or have something you want The Launch Mission to talk about this year—tell us that, too.
We’re going to spend this year talking about preparing for what’s next. But preparing for your future shouldn’t mean putting your current life on hold.
