{"id":7256,"date":"2022-05-02T09:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:37:14","slug":"the-pressures-we-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2022\/05\/02\/the-pressures-we-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pressures We Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0People feel pressure for many different reasons throughout their lives. For example: to do well in school, to create the best painting, to pick the best fitting job. But for young people, one of the most stressful times can be during their senior year of high school. People are continually asking, \u201cWhat college did you apply\/get into?\u201d \u201cWhat major did you choose?\u201d \u201cAre you staying on campus or off campus?\u201d \u201cHow many scholarships were you awarded?\u201d Daisy Grant is currently a high school senior who has already decided which college she is going to attend. Audree Burtt is a senior in high school who has decided to become a travel certified nursing assistant after graduating.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Daisy is 18. She will be attending the University of Maine Farmington in the fall. She has a very close relationship with her family. But she is ready to take the next step in her life, which is college. Daisy explained what pressures affected her during senior year. \u201cProbably the push for applying and filling out the different applications for colleges, and all the forms that go along with it. Such as FAFSA, writing essays and asking for recommendation letters.\u201d\u00a0 Sometimes parents will put a lot of pressure on their children during senior year. But Daisy\u2019s parents had a different view. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t a lot of pressure with what school I chose, as long as I got everything submitted on time and got into a good college.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0By the end of senior year, some seniors have mixed emotions about everything changing. Daisy has mixed emotions. \u201cHappy, because I can start the next chapter of my life with the career I am passionate about. But I also feel sad that I am leaving everything I have ever known behind. Coming to the end of senior year, even though there has been a ton of pressure along the way, I know I am ready to move to the next chapter of my life.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Audree is also 18. She started off high school thinking she would end up going to college for nursing. But at the age of 16, she became a CNA and started a job at a nearby nursing home. She got experience working with patients and nurses. She then realized that she was not ready to be a nurse. Audree has firsthand experience of the pressures and expectations of a high school senior. \u201cIn the last couple of years of high school, I have struggled with focusing on assignments due to difficult circumstances. This has led me to wanting to take a couple of years to find myself and travel.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Audree is not planning to go to college\u2013at least not right away. \u201cThis has led me to take a break from school and proceed with the career I already have. I chose to become a travel CNA because the skills I have now will help me with this program in the future. As I have worked with different travel CNAs, I have learned that I can gain more experience and more money than the job I have now. I realized that college isn\u2019t meant for everyone, and I think that path is not for me, at least not yet. A lot of people do end up going to college for the \u2018college experience.\u2019 But I learned that it is not for everyone.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Both perspectives show some of the stress and pressures that people can go through during this period in their lives. The responses of both Audree and Daisy demonstrate the pressures that some seniors go through, especially about what they will do after high school. Though Audree and Daisy have big decisions to make, there are also other seniors who do not have the privileges that other people do. These perspectives show only two different outcomes of a senior’s decisions. But there are others who do not get these opportunities at all. These two perspectives show that there are many expectations for seniors: but ultimately, they should choose the path that is right for them, not what is expected of them. \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0People feel pressure for many different reasons throughout their lives. For example: to do well in school, to create the best painting, to pick the best fitting job. But for young people, one of the most stressful times can be during their senior year of high school. People are continually asking, \u201cWhat college did you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8121,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions\/8121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}