The End of The Year By:Eva Zerega

And with that, the crazy school year has come to a close. We wish the seniors farewell as they embark on a new adventure, and we welcome new students to the school! It’s a bittersweet time, the ending of an era, yet the beginning of another for many. The rest of us, prepare for next year, the upcoming junior year filled with classes and credits, volunteering, and extracurriculars. The rising seniors finalize their college lists and prepare themselves for the application process to come, while those who will be sophomores in the fall are simply glad they survived their first year of high school. And that all sounds perfect and normal right? Well, this year things are a little different, there is a sense of unease and unknowing, the end of the school year is not quite as satisfying, we’re headed into the unknown and living with the want for things to be perfect and normal.

Despite this obvious difference in the present and the past, we must remain positive, and I know how infuriating that is to hear, especially for the seniors. We hear it all the time but it’s hard to maintain a positive mindset when one is missing out on something that they most likely will never be able to experience again, and instead, they are living through a global pandemic before they get to have a senior prom or walk across the stage and receive their diploma. As hard as it may be to look on the bright side as I am sure many of you have been told to do countless times, look back at your memories and what you have learned and instead simply acknowledge all that you may have lost, then look to future and think about all that is to come.