Seniors, How Are You Doing, Really?
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April 7, 2020
Right now is a time of uncertainty for most everyone. We are unsure of what is to come and how our school year will end. Seniors, we want to hear how you’re feeling about everything. Let us know by leaving a comment at the bottom of this article.
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I wish I would be able to go on the trip, prom, but I’m not very pumped about graduation, I’m not the type to get up in front of people
I think as a senior we can all agree that this year is not going at all how we planned. With prom being postponed/rescheduled and not hearing anything as far as our graduation ceremony goes, we’re all torn because that is the last thing we want taken from us. not getting to spend the last few months of our senior year roaming through the halls and being in our classrooms is really taking a toll as well. All together, I think that things could be worse but hopefully they get better soon.
I honestly am sad about what is happening to our senior year now, i have always looked forward to having my own prom, walking the line with my fellow classmates, and being able to have a senior trip with my close friends one last time before we all go out own separate ways into adulthood. This whole needing to social distance out selves from others and needing to sty home if we do not have important things to do is very damaging to my self esteem and my mental health. I miss seeing my favorite teachers and the staff of the school who made it enjoyable to be there. I miss my classes with some amazing classmates and very memorable times I have had at Central Hardin with my friends. Sometimes i wish this pandemic had never happened but things happen for a reason in this world and as of right now we are all living through something that will be known as history. I just wish there was another way to experience our biggest senior moments without having to wait til this is all over. For example what if we social distance our selves for graduation? We can hold the ceremony outside on our football field and only let in 1-3 guests per student for graduation. we have 2 sets of bleachers and we could social distance our selves and also take the extra precautions and make sure that people are clean. We could also have the guests have their temperature taken at the gate to make sure they are not running a fever. Prom would be a different situation along with the senior trip.
I think I speak for everyone when I say that alot of us Seniors regret taking our last year for granted. While at school, all we could think and converse about was how we can’t wait to graduate and get out of school to continue with college, work, military training, etc, but now that everything is up in the air I think most of us regret not making even more memories beforehand. This year was supposed to be about friends, Prom, Senior Trip, walking the line, planning our life, but now that everything is on pause all we can do is wonder what is to come and reminiscence what we had.
I feel really mad about this whole situation. I’m not mad at anyone specifically just mad at the world. I spent literally all my life going through all my up and downs to see that one day ill be walking across the stage thanking my mom and the people that helped me strive through all 13 years of school. But now that is taken away at the very end of my senior year I just feel like I’m randomly pushed into adult life. I have no idea how to apply to college still and I have so many questions about college still. This is a struggle for right now but I’m hoping somewhere in the near future schools will open back up and ill be able to work through all of this craziness to build a better future.
I am going to be honest COVID-19 has really taken a toll on me. Being stuck in quarantine, I am stuck doing work at home, which I would be okay with if it wasn’t for weeks on end. I have hardly been able to get out of the house for work. It’s suffocating here, no matter the weather outside. I feel like I am going insane, not being able to see any of friends or to enjoy the things I had taken for granted before. I am majorly disheartened about no trip with the band that was scheduled during Spring Break, having no idea if we are having a prom or not, and I still have no clue of if we are doing the senior trip during the 2nd-3rd week of May. Are we even going to graduate on time? Will we be able to walk the line at the end of the year? All these thoughts that I maybe shouldn’t really worry about still cloud my head and I just want to know if I can end my senior year on a good note or not.
I’m enjoying it! NTI days are certainly not how I imagined finishing high school, but I enjoy building my own schedule and having more free time. I just really hope we get to have graduation as the last “goodbye” to teachers and friends and stuff.
Its honestly depressing that we won’t be able to finish our school year with all of our friends and get to experience it like everyone before us. But maybe it’s for the best, and maybe this will give us more opportunities to do more with our lives instead of going to school everyday not experiencing life. My thoughts are we should just graduate and be done with it. We’ve already went this long why not.
This nontraditional teaching is something that does take some getting used to, but I’m managing through it. I do my assignments, turn them in, and try to relax at the end of the day.
Times are hard nowadays. Some of the seniors are essential so it kind of makes it hard to balance that and school work online. It is harder to keep up with different assignments from all of our teachers sometimes. And without traditional instruction it can be hard if you have a question or if you are confused on something. Sure you can email or message your teacher but some people learn better when something is shown to them instead of just being told how to do something.
Honestly, I’m a little worried. with losing prom and maybe graduation this just wont be the same for us as they were before
It doesn’t seem like it is my senior year at all. Not getting to see my friends or having prom. Before you know it, it will be graduation that I bet we don’t get to have. It is just a very sad situation all around.
I wish we had school so I don’t have to worry about this online stuff, I lost motivation to do school work and have become behind on my work, im trying to really find something to help me do my work.
Being a senior is difficult during this time. Sure, we have to do online classes like everyone else, but the weight of planning senior events have been placed on all of our shoulders and as a collective, we honestly probably wont agree on stuff the same way. Its pretty difficult out here.
I’m very sad that graduation will most likely be delayed, I really hope we get to still walk the line or I will be very upset. I am also really down about prom suppose to be tomorrow, I hope it gets rescheduled. I was looking forward to it, I already had my dress and everything. Other than that I’m doing fine, I just really hope those things still get to happen. It’s part of the Senior experience and if we don’t get that, that is just very upsetting to me.
I believe that right now is a difficult situation for all of us who are in areas with this pandemic going on at the moment. Everyone is looking forward to getting back on their feet, doing things they used to be able to and for us seniors, looking forward to a graduation that may or may not happen.
It is very stressful and its hard because we don’t know if we are going to have prom i hope that this corona virus goes away so we can have prom and at least have a little of our fun part of senior year back
i feel like im missing out on so much and i feel like im struggling with the NTI
When we got out of school the second month on like the third or fourth week I started to have some anxiety problems because of I am afraid if I will caught it so I started to look up the symptoms and what will happen if a person will get the virus. The next day I got off social media for a day and it worked, I didn’t search up anything about the virus or even thought about it at all. Now, I am feeling confidence about myself now.
I’m really not doing well with this COVID-19, and quarantine. I miss my friends, I miss being able to get out and go whenever. Oh, and let’s not forget that the teachers are really piling on the work load. I’m a senior this year and the last 2-3 months of my senior year was ripped away without warning. I never thought that I’d walk out of Central for the last time on March 11th. I guess everything happens for a reason though.
Honestly, this whole situation is awful. I miss my friends and my teachers. I miss the fact i won’t get to have my finally months of high schools and didn’t expect my last day to be March 11th. It truly does suck, but the best we can do is stay home get our work done, and hopefully have something that will maybe make up for this big mess. One thing for sure is that our class won’t ever be forgotten. And that makes me happy.
Im an essential worker so this garbage sucks. I hate it. I wanna go back to school and spend power hour with my friends and go to prom with my boyfriend. I want to go on our senior trip and walk the line while my mom cries because shes so proud of me. I hate this.
honestly these times are difficult between me working 2 jobs to helping some of the homeless because now of the panic almost nobody gives to the needing and the poor even with the stimulus check they are still struggling just to get by the check has barely covered food and barely covers for them to have shelter from outside climate