I’m sure many others are starting to feel the same way.

This isn’t the typical near-the-end-of-the-semester angst. It’s the impending jubilation most soon-to-be MSU graduates begin to pick up on as May approaches. This was commonly known as “senioritis” in high school, but now that we’re making that major transition from university to the “real word,” it feels more like an epiphany.

A few weeks from now, there will be no 8 a.m. classes.

No need for the ANGEL Web site.

No more fill-in-the-bubble test sheets. No need to stay up all night studying for an exam.

And — to the delight of countless people, I’m sure — no more need to read The State News.

Oh, how sweet the moment of liberation will be.

But again, that’s a few weeks away. In the meantime, some of my fellow seniors have suggested this is the time to make the most of the college experience.

So far, that’s come to mean a last-minute dash to make as many “memories” as possible before it’s all over. Yet it’s hard to see what’s so special about cramming in as many activities as possible before graduation.

No thanks. If I didn’t bother to experience all the aspects of college life I wanted to in the past four years or so, then they probably weren’t very important to begin with.

Seems like a waste of time to go down the checklist of typical things to do — go to a basketball or football game, visit the Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden or go to an RHA Campus Center Cinemas movie — when it will barely register as a footnote in our college experience down the road.

Although the most responsible thing to do with this remaining time would probably entail going to every class, handing in every last assignment and making some sort of effort before the semester ends, I really can’t come up with any incentive to do so.

Years of math have finally proven their usefulness: Technically speaking, many soon-to-be graduates and I have discovered if we did nothing for the rest of the semester, we’d still pass every class and graduate.

After four years of paying to be tested and being obliged to do what was required to get to this point, why not relax a bit?

Life from now on — one full of working, budgets and even more responsibility — seems stressful enough without getting worked up about more assignments or all the collegiate things one must experience before leaving East Lansing.

Instead, I want to spend this time not only carrying out whatever whim comes to mind, but also enjoying the freedom to do so. After high school, we were introduced to a new level of freedom at college. Students move away from home, turn 21 years old and live independently. In May, we’ll gain even more responsibilities and opportunities as we set out to make our way into whatever our chosen profession happens to be.

But at the same time, that progression requires us to forfeit our freedom to do whatever we want. College students are in the lucky position of having little to lose — typically, we don’t have a lot of money or anything to tie us down or keep us from taking any opportunity.

We’re in that strange gap between no obligations and “real world” responsibilities.

We have more ability to do whatever we damn well please, which isn’t going to last forever.

Of course, skipping class, ignoring test dates and the like might not seem like the best or wisest use of that power, but you get my point.

This is probably my last chance to indulge in any kind of academic laziness or procrastination, and I’m going to take full advantage of that while I can.

Lindsey Poisson is the State News opinion writer. Reach her at poisson4@msu.edu.