High school and college are two very different spectrums. The idea of college means starting a new phase of life, and becoming more of an adult. You’re leaving the young you behind and transforming into someone else.
Not all students chose to go to college once they graduate. Some students chose to pursue other activities, like Arriago, and wait to go to college, either for financial reasons, to join the military or workforce, or for other, more personal, reasons.
Many students joke about it. The school gives awards for it. However, senioritis is more serious that students realize, and the cases are more severe second semester. Seniors change their schedule, study less and does less homework.
While some students may see taking electives as nothing more than a requirement, others are able to discover what they are passionate about through these classes, and decide that they are going to continue with these electives, for example theater arts, art, etc, in college.
Dual credit is a program available to sophomores through seniors where these students can chose to take certain classes that allow them to be simultaneously enrolled, and earning college credits, at San Antonio College (SAC), while still in high school.
However not all students will be taking a break from school, a handful of seniors have decided to start college in the summer by attending summer classes leaving little to no time between graduation and college.