walk down this side of the hallway, they got things in the hallway, ’social distance,’ no lockers to put any of your books or anything so you had to carry heavy books in your bookbag all day, at lunch, all day,” she said. “Then, it was like you couldn’t sit close to anybody.” Many students switched to the virtual option, Crim said, and she decided to make the switch herself for the second semester of the senior year. “My goal is just to graduate,” she said. Crim said
“I haven’t had a pep rally, I haven’t had a homecoming, I haven’t had anything,” she said. “And I wanted to go back to school to spend my last semester of high school with my friends. I was just virtual for a couple days. And I was like, ‘okay, this is not it for me.’ I wanted to be around people.” Crim said she lost her motivation to do work to finish her senior year. There are things she will never experience — senior prank, senior skip day, the parties.
that she originally wanted to go back to the in-person option in August, because she has always been a social person. She tried the virtual option at the start of the second semester and decided she preferred in-person, asking to switch back, but the option was no longer available. So Crim finished her senior year virtually, away from friends and any sense of normalcy that most seniors have.
“It feels like all the dreams that I had while being a lower classman have been ruined because of the coronavirus,” she said. “But, I can still say that we tried to make the best of it.” Crim said she felt there was not a lot of support for graduating seniors in 2021. “I feel like I don’t really understand what a senior year is supposed to feel like because I’ve never experienced it fully,” Baldwin said.
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Graduating Class of 2021
