Get your application materials in order.

No matter what field you are headed into or planning on continuing education, gathering all of your materials from your college years is essential to finding your path after college. This could be compiling a portfolio of work samples, which includes updating your LinkedIn page from sophomore year and carving out some time to do this. Collect any outstanding homework assignments and be on your way. Update your resume, craft a general cover letter for reference and sampling, ask professors, advisors, classmates, coworkers, and supervisors to be referenced and provide letters of recommendation, and whatever else you feel you need to do to be prepared for the working world. The last thing you want is to leave college and not have a clue as to what is happening or how to function in the real working world.

Find ways to stay connected.

Are you close to any professors or other college employees? If you are, be sure to have some way to contact them down the line. You may need to use them as a reference for a job, a letter of recommendation, or lean on them for career advice, or maybe you will just want to chat over a coffee at some point. Either way, making sure you have some way to connect with them in the future is a good thing to do in your senior year. Many colleges have fairly active alum programs, especially for specific majors and schools, so you may need to find out what sort of events they may be able to tell you about to reconnect or network with other professors, administrators, or alums. Likewise, if you have friends who maybe live a considerable distance away, staying connected can still prove valuable as a community. Phone numbers, emails, and social media profiles are great ways to keep in contact, but consider setting up regular times to chat or reconnect. That could be a yearly vacation together, or a monthly Skype or Zoom call (turning that gathering into a book club is always a viable solution, at least for some friend groups). Regardless of the situation, keeping the connections, you made over your college career will be invaluable in the long haul.

Take time to enjoy the experience.

You will leave a lot about enjoying college. It is likely the freest period of your life and your life to come. While you still need to focus on academics, professionalism in work and school, jobs, family, and other responsibilities, you must take some time to enjoy the last first day of class. The last class you will have is on a Thursday, and the last time you will spend the entire night hanging out with friends, studying, or whatever else. It may be the last time eating in the cafeteria, and you will want to celebrate! Maybe it will be the last time you will hang out with your foreign-exchange student friend for the foreseeable future. No matter what your rituals were, or if you did not have any, take time to soak in the experience of walking through those classroom doors and into your future.