Year brings challenges, disappointments

“Being a senior is surreal,” said Kassidy Green, one of the students whose senior year has been upended by the pandemic.

“I wasn’t able to have my final year in marching band or robotics,” she said. She also missed out on the traditions of Senior Sunrise and Senior Sunset, times she would have normally spent making memories with her friends.

A lot of the disappointment with this year can be attributed to COVID. “I don’t think I’ll get the chance to have a regular senior moment this year,” said Green, “but I don’t think I’m too upset about it. I would rather be safe than anything.”

Senior year is something that students look forward to, often from the moment they step foot on campus as freshmen, but the pandemic has created a different focus. Green was lucky to have been involved and make memories throughout her high school experience, but she still has some regrets. “Prom was one thing I was really sad to miss in my senior year,” she said.

“Senior year doesn’t really feel too different from junior year. My classes aren’t that much different and the only thing that was worse was the IB exams,” said Green.

With last year ending in a virtual experience, there really haven’t been any major differences taking classes this last year. Green still has six classes, all of them being International Baccalaureate (IB) classes, the most challenging of which has been math. Since it was online, the students had to start from scratch, redoing and relearning what had already learned the year before.