Hello everyone, and welcome to my first blog post:)
Today I am going to be talking about my Senior Year so far during the Pandemic with online school and everything else along with it. It is currently February and I have just completed my first week of the second semester. It's insane that this is my last semester of high school and if I'm being honest it really hasn't hit that I'm a senior who’s going to be graduating in a few short months and moving out to college (Scary).
My first semester so far has been very hectic, to say the least, we started school two weeks late and we were online and then students had the option to choose between full-on distance-learning or hybrid learning and I chose hybrid because I wanted to get out of my house and hopefully see some of my friends and certain people I don’t get to see except at school. The first week back at school I was having a pretty fun time even though it really sucked not being able to see ALL of my friends since the hybrid model was split by 2 cohorts categorized by last names. But after that first-week things got pretty old real quick because we had a block schedule system where we had hours 1,3 and 5 for the first two days of the week, then hours 2,4 and 6, and then we had Friday off which was nice and all, but the block schedules made school extremely unbearable. This was a very big trial semester for me because if I'm being honest I haven't ever really tried in school up until junior year which by the way I DON’T recommend waiting to try in school, just start trying from the beginning, or else you’ll have regrets like I did. Keep in mind I've always been an A and B student but I had more potential, I just never tried sadly.
Senior year is supposed to be the year where we all slack off because that's what everyone says when you get into your senior year but literally the moment I stepped into school I knew that I had no time to “Slide” because if I missed ONE homework assignment, I would end up extremely behind. On top of this, I was also taking 5 classes that were pretty challenging to balance. As frustrating as this was, the first semester had made me extremely productive and I never procrastinated on my schoolwork. This was the biggest difference in my first semester compared to every other year I was in school (Besides the fact that we're in the middle of a pandemic of course). But school was really hard for me and the worst part was that it wasn't going to get any better anytime soon.
We were in school for about almost 2 months and then Covid cases started to rise even more and we had to go back to full-on distance and this was when hell really came for me. While I was getting sick of being in class and staying in one classroom for two hours, the moment we went back on full distance my school load had gotten 10 times bigger and everything got 10x harder. This had made me realize that the reason why I probably enjoyed school so much in the past three years was that I was able to look forward to football games on Fridays or just any sports game/event that week. Due to Covid we were really limited on sports and so the boys didn't even have a football season until weeks later into school but even then no fans could really come and they only had six games. So when football was out my friends and I went to every single soccer game that we could go to (Boys and Girls) because we had friends on both teams and it was just something for us to do/look forward to and it was one of the few sports that would let us watch. This wasn't ideal for a lot of us but we knew that we had to take advantage of everything that we could before it was too late: Something I wish I had appreciated more last year.
Once we had shifted back to online, winter sports were already delayed but then Governer Walz had made an announcement to further delay sports until January 6th which broke my heart because I manage the Boy’s Hockey Team and I’ve been doing it since my freshman year so I have the biggest attachment to that program and it sucked because in all honesty, I love being able to live in Minnesota and experience the four seasons but winter is extremely depressing and hard to live through and hockey was what gave me something exciting to look forward to. On top of that NHL wasn’t airing either so I really had nothing to look forward to and it was the middle of the semester and things were getting harder to handle in school.
After a tough few weeks later with Thanksgiving and winter break in between I finally had powered through and hockey was officially starting. I was very excited and school felt more bearable because of the excitement. After a week of tryouts and a bunch of other things later the season was finally starting and if I'm being honest it was kind of um rough to say the least and there were a lot of bittersweet moments but regardless, I was so thankful to be back. Unfortunately for me, January had gone by really really fast so after hours of sleepless nights, zoom calls, and a TON of quizzes and tests later, I was getting ready to wrap up my first semester of Senior Year and getting ready to move onto next semester… which was 10x harder than my first. Which now leads us to this exact moment right here. I currently have a ton of assignments to do which are HARD and I have no motivation. I missed online school last year when there was no structure and it wasn’t stressful :( But like I said earlier, I cannot slide unfortunately so I will have to keep pushing through these next few months. In all honesty, a huge round of applause to anyone who is not stressed about online school, and to all the teachers for putting up with this hectic schedule. While my first semester wasn't the best, or exactly how I wanted it to be, I am still very proud of myself and everyone for enduring such a tough few months. Let’s hope things get easier.
Sincerely, TT :)
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