Throughout the course of your life, you spend about 2,340 days of your life forced into the American school system. Shoved into some tiny classroom with uncomfortable seating surrounded by a bunch of your peers learning about some man who most likely impacted our society but died about 100 years ago, just restless for the day you get to walk across that stage. If you’re reading this, that means you have approximately 179 days left of your final year in this building. Don’t be afraid to take it all in.

Throughout high school, mentors will try to offer their words of wisdom through life advice and cliche life mottos, and it can be hard to filter the important from the useless. So, if I could give the senior class one piece of advice, it would be to slow down and not let your workload take over your life. You can only fill your bucket so much before it overflows.

This workload applies not only to schoolwork but everything else as well. Finding a good balance between how many hard classes you can take before you want to explode, and how many days a week you can work while still being able to do your homework and have an actual life, is difficult but crucial. The last thing you want to do is look back at high school and wish you had spent less time with your head in the books and more time making memories.

So with the remainder of your 179 days, just remember the time is going to pass either way, you might as well make the most of it.