In countries where academics are still highly valued, Senior year is the time when students are frantically studying and preparing for the intense entrance exams to get into the best colleges and universities.
—fifty years ago, the senior year was as important as any of the rest, especially if you had hopes of going to college and making something of yourself beyond farm labor—but of course, then “college” professors (and students) taught and learned something and even had to appear on campus five days a week , unlike much of academia today-—