H.C.

Henry Connor

“There was one day when we were coming back from online school and it felt Community. I’ve had three different experiences with high school. I hadn’t really found my friend group yet [freshman year.] I didn’t know anyone because a lot of my friends from middle school went to different schools. So I didn’t have a friend group going into [CHS.] I had to find my own way, and there were a lot of things I wasn’t aware of because I hadn’t found my path yet. And then online school, which was part two of my journey. I think COVID was good in terms of school; I got all my work done. I had [friends] but it just wasn’t the same. [When we came back] something was happening on the lawn, it was a back to school thing, I remember sitting down with my friends and I finally felt like I was actually in high school. We were talking about what we did for [online school]. I think my junior and senior year were more [similar to a] typical high school experience. I think that learning at Community will end up being a great influence on me because it’s made me a more creative and independent thinker, and it’s made me learn what it means to pave my own path, and if you want to do something, it takes a lot of hard work, but you’ll end up having something that you’re proud of. [At Community] you can just try out things that you want to do and there’s so many things that you can do in the community. I think that I learned a lot, and that can help me in university and then eventually after college.”