Everybody thought it was just gonna be, like a couple days of like a break, and then it was months and months of not going to school.

 

My overall experience with a COVID shutdown was good and bad, just like a lot of everything it brought with it, it was good because I got to, like, see stuff that I wouldn't have gotten to see, like, online classes were never anything you could do in high school. But it was bad because a lot of people did miss going to school. I mean, I didn't, because I really just didn't feel like going in but it was just, like, such a different experience than like so many people had had.

 

My experience with online classes was good. I personally liked them. I was able to do all of my work and, like, also enjoy being at home, and I could, like, have my own lunch break where I was able to eat what I wanted instead of, like, being stuck at school. But other students seem to struggle with the structure of online like classes and wouldn't show up to online meetings and wouldn't get their work done. And I was able to keep up with all the work during my online classes, which ended up actually making me ahead because I had more credits than other people, since some people just lost all these credits during online classes, and This eventually led to me graduating early in December of my senior year, but I wasn't able to walk with my class at the end of the year, not that I wanted to, anyways, because they took me off of their insurance And wouldn't give me a gown or an outfit. They just eventually had me pick up my diploma. Certain classes online were really hard to replicate, like my gym class, it was hard to be able to, like, have people do physical exercise online. And during my gym class, one of the teachers who was teaching required everyone to turn on their cameras and start doing jumping jacks, and this made a lot of people uncomfortable. And eventually students started telling their parents, and their parents were emailing the school. And then that teacher got suspended and stopped teaching gym classes online completely, but was just like a sports manager at the school instead. But overall, my experience with online classes was good.

 

COVID affected my college decisions a lot. I feel like when I first started doing online classes, it wasn't like I was. Thinking Ahead, especially because I was a freshman, I wasn't thinking like, oh, college. I can't wait to go and do online classes there. But after doing, like, my whole sophomore year online too, I was kind of like, Oh, these are nice, especially when I went back to school too. I was like, wow, I miss being at home and doing online classes and, like, not having to come in and wake up every day at 7:30 and be here till 2:30 which definitely sucked going back, but by the time I was in college, I took two in person and two online classes for my first semester, because I kind of wanted to see what each of them were like and what they could offer me. And I found that I really, really did enjoy the online classes more, just because I felt like it was easier for me to get my work done. And I had done like, almost half of my high school just online anyways, so it just had made more sense to me, and now in my fourth semester at college, I'm taking all online classes, and I really like them personally. I think they're great, and I think that we should do more online classes, just because there's no harm in adding a couple of extra classes.