MARCH 11-12, 2021 NEWS
How Has Covid-19 Affected After Highschool Plans?
By Sydney Slaton
not,” which is hard since he can’t visit colleges. Many things have “There’s an had to change due to the N.C.A.A. dead period until pandemic, especially school, April 15 so I can’t even see and many juniors and sethe coaches in person, which niors have had to adjust their is a big part of picking,” plans for college. Vandaveer said. Planning for col Junior Sarah Day lege is stressful for many has been planning on going students, few juniors and to KU or K-State for most of seniors thought that they’d her life until the pandemic have to change their plans hit. suddenly because of a “Last summer I was pandemic, but students have like if I go to KU or K-State, been managing, senior Riley am I really going to get the Vandaveer “They haven’t full college exseems to perience because have figured really changed, things are shut things down. So I started out easily they’ve just thinking about enough. become more my other interests, For and I really like to Vandaveer difficult,” do hair,” Day said. the biggest Before -Riley Vandaveer part of pickCovid-19 doing ing a college hair “was always something is sports. He plans on being [Day] really liked” but she on the track team in college didn’t think she could make and just wants to figure out a career out of it. Day’s plans if “[he] likes the team or
have changed a lot due to the pandemic, but now she has a new idea. “So now my plan is to go to Johnson County Community College and do their cosmetology program, which is a two-year program where your certificate and then you can take the Kansas cosmetology boards exam,” Day said. Covid-19 has changed many student’s plans for what they’re going to do after high school, whether they haven’t changed all that much or they changed drastically, almost everyone can agree on that. “It changed, I’m no longer planning on going to a four-year college, I’m just going to plan on going to a cosmetology school because I realized it’s something that I feel like I can always find a job in, and that I really like doing,” Day said.
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