In-person enrollment trends up

By JADEN FORTIER Staff Writer

As the COVID-19 pandemic has all but surely lost its grip on the world, everyone have been transitioning their ways of life back to how things used to be pre-pandemic. One major aspect of life that’s slowly making this transition is education.

In the spring and fall 2019 semesters, Los Medanos College had a very low number of fully online and hybrid sections offered by the community college compared to the amount of face to face sections there were, as there was only 23 hybrid sections and 93 fully online during this time, while there was as many as 837 face to face sections. Enrollment was also high at 27,051, which is the highest it has been in the past three and a half years. This would completely change when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the United States in 2020.

In both the spring and fall 2020 semesters the majority of sections were only offered online. Not only did the type of classes offered completely change, the there were marginal changes in the kinds of sections offered, but things weren’t all too different from the prior year. However, things started looking

How she got here was anything but normative. She went to an Ivy League school to become a paralegal and the hostility of male coworkers drove her to become a lawyer.

“I was not the smartest person in my class, but I worked hard to get a better life for myself,” Weiss said.

Juggling the pressures of family, school, pregnancy and work, Weiss graduated first in her class and passed the California Bar exam on her first attempt.

Leading to her first main claim of her speech: “Don’t let your life get in front of your dreams,” she told the students that if she could do what she did, anyone can do the same. No matter whatever walk of life a person may be in, taking an alternate route to your destination is okay.

When asked whether cases get put aside due to low staff, she responded, “All cases are as important as the first. If there is a case that is understaffed, it may take years for there to be a court case or any action of the matter.”

She used a few examples leading to a sub-claim that