As a resident Troy High student, I feel that it is my duty to tell you all the horrors that we have been facing now that school has moved online.
Let me go back to the beginning of this whole debacle:
March 12, 2020: I went home upset that the one of my 25 afterschool activities got cancelled because of this weird COVID thing. At home I did homework for approximately 35 hours (it was a light night) then I spent the remaining time studying for my upcoming SAT even though I have been taking it since I was a freshman. I'm just working on raising my measly 1500, which is such an embarrassing score I won't even tell my friends about it in fear of being socially excluded.
April-June 2020: School being cancelled has been the worst thing that has happened in my long 17 years of life. I have nothing to do, staring at the wall all day and dreaming about the better days when I had a schedule full of AP classes and a job after school that kept me awake all hours of the night, to the point where I evolved to not need sleep. With my new ability to not sleep, I sit and wallow that my only purpose in life has now been ripped out of my hands. I don't even have anything to talk to my friends about anymore, as our only past time of being passive aggressive about who has the better grades is now obsolete. I can only hope and pray that school will resume in person in September to fill this empty hole in the computer chip where my heart should be.
September-October 2020: I am so glad that school has resumed. These 90 minute class times are my favorite times of the day and the only times that I feel I have purpose. I am desperate to go to a hybrid learning, even though my parents forbid me because they are worried I'll get infected, while I am worried about keeping up my relations with my teachers. The 30 seconds of conversation we have in the beginning of zoom class while the rest of the students awkwardly and sleepily stare at me are not enough, and I need to fulfill my goal of making all of my teachers my forced best friends. I just finished the 5 college applications that my entire life goal and purpose has lead me to. I applied to NYU, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and my safety school U of M. I now am excited for my last year of high school so that I can move on to my ultimate goal of having 10 PhD's and being in graduate school for the rest of my life.
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