By Elizabeth Carty
This year’s freshman class is coming from over thirty-five middle schools across the St. Louis area, and the pandemic lockdown has affected our schooling in more ways than one. Despite the changes to how our first year would have usually gone, students and staff seem to be dealing with it in strides. Considering all of this, I decided to ask some of my peers about how they feel our ninth-grade year has gone so far. The responses have vacillated from feeling stressed about keeping up with the workload to feeling unprepared because of their eighth-grade experience.
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By Django Halloran
Have you ever tried the school lunch? If you have, surely you know how delectable the soggy, greasy grilled cheese is. And the pasta, smothered in cheese and some sort of brown substance that may be beef. Or maybe the nachos that lack a substantial amount of anything related to cheese are your favorite. Clearly, if you haven’t tried it, you don’t know what you’re missing. By Hadeel Alsalami '24
It’s funny looking back and realizing how old friendships got strained over the smallest things. This past year, however, has not really been that small of a thing. It’s not limited to friendships either. Romantic relationships got so strained throughout the pandemic. Even with the thing we arguably used most to communicate, our phones being our vessel for everything we could ever need, communication is something so many people struggled with in the past couple of months. By Lilley Halloran '22
At some point last week, it hit me; I barely have any high school left. Almost an entire semester of senior year has flown by, leaving me with a little over six months until graduation. This realization has led me to a lot of conclusions: time flies, I’m not ready to be an adult, graduating will be a big relief, etc. Most notably though, I’ve realized that I am extremely stressed. In August, I pledged to myself that I would make this year count. Coming back from an entire year of virtual school, I was determined to make as many memories as possible. Somewhere along the line, that goal got lost, though. It slowly fell down my list of priorities until it became drowned out by college applications and mounds of homework. |
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