Whoever said senior year is the best year lied. Between senior comprehensives, classes, homework, GRE's and trying to have a life beyond campus, you can start to feel as if your life is spinning out of control.

And on top of all that, you're supposed to know what you're going to do with the rest of your life when I don't even know what I'm going to be doing in the next half hour.

I know the question of "What are you going to do after graduation?' is usually asked by well-meaning people, but when your biggest goal some days is just to try and fit dinner in, the question of your life plan can become minuscule.

Considering that I don't have my life map planned out and that I have four different answers for "What are you doing after graduation?," I don't know whether I should look forward to May or look into becoming a fifth year senior.

Maybe if I were to stick around for another year I might actually have the chance to see my friends on occasion. As it is right now we are all so busy with some student teaching, others studying for the LSAT and the rest of us trying to work on our senior projects that we barely see each other.

This after the excitement of last year when everyone got his or her off-campus housing contracts signed, and we knew there would always be a place to go on a Friday, Saturday or even Tuesday night.

Then the school year actually began and everyone began to realize: senior year is hard.

Now that midterms are coming up, let the real fun begin. Everyone is going to be working on those essays and catching up on reading that has been put off to the last minute, or maybe that's just me.

The sad thing is that I'm already exhausted and dreaming of graduation, when snow hasn't even hit the ground yet. At least we do have October break coming up because I know I need a break from Notre Dame, Ind.

Some skeptics might be thinking — no, senior year can't be that bad. Well, you're right because of course there have been some awesome moments this year, I just wish I had the time to have more of them.

So if you meet a senior anytime soon have pity on them and don't ask them about graduation or their life plans because chances are they don't know where they'll be the next minute. Instead you could adopt a senior, offer to do their reading and write a summary for them to study from, clean their room or fix them dinner.

Well, I can wish.

• Adopt a senior