How Covid-19 Has Changed Our Lives Essay For Students

Senior year highlights include. Prom, senior activities, walking down the stage, and tossing your graduation cap up in the air. Going on a trip with your friends before you all move off to college and having your final high school party. WOW! Senior year is the best year of your school career since you can finally say you graduated high school. In a blink of an eye, my exciting expectations of senior year went crashing down. Let me tell you how everything changed, and why 2020 was the worst year for some graduates. 

I was five months into my senior year and everything was going great. I was aware of a virus that appeared in the United States but I paid little attention to it. I assumed it would be like the other viruses that have appeared in the past. About two weeks later, I heard about a cruise ship with 3,600 passengers needing to quarantine due to the virus. Since it was so close to China, I still didn't pay much attention to it. Two months later that’s when everything came to an end. Covid cases were popping up all throughout the United States. Things were about to change at that point, the day before spring break was different. I didn’t know what to expect and how everything was going to be different. “If we go into lockdown,” I thought, “this might be the last time I see some of my friends for a while if this virus gets worst”

March 16, 2020, when Dallas ISD decided to do online school. I was still hopeful that everything would return to normal and that everything would be over before graduation. Well, I was wrong, it was not coming to an end, and Texas was put on lockdown. Even though I was unemployed due to covid, one good part of the lockdown was learning how to cook and bake more. Also helped me think about my career paths and made me realize what I actually want to do. My teacher informed me two weeks before senior activities that everything, including prom, had been canceled. I was sad, I was not going to experience a prom dance. Then weeks before graduation, I heard about other districts having graduations in stadiums. I hoped my district did the same as others but no we couldn't. Since my district was the biggest in the DFW area, it was a risk. I understood it was for our safety yet it was kind of disappointing not walking across the stage and hearing my family cheer for me. 

One week before graduation I took some pictures for my virtual graduation. I was not excited about it, but my mom encouraged me to get it done. I did it, I got it done, I turned in my pictures and it was finally graduation day. My graduation was virtual and it was a slideshow on Facebook live. Even though I was not excited about it, I teared up when I was watching it. I couldn't believe it, I finally graduated from all that stress and tears from school thinking I was going to drop out halfway, I FINALLY MADE IT! Out of all the bad things that happened in 2020 my graduation was the best. After my family and I  finished watching the ceremony my family decided to celebrate me with a little party. It wasn’t a big party like how I would have wanted it to be but, at least I got to celebrate it with my family.

All in all, my senior year in high school may not be as full of excitement or activities as it was in the past, such as field trips with classmates. COVID may have ruined it, but this is a life experience that taught me how it affects the world and how I should take preventative measures. Since this virus is not like any other virus, it can be cured by taking any medication, so it needs more medical attention. I know that at least staying home is safer than going to school and catching the virus. Doing virtual classes was a challenge because I am used to being more focused and doing practical work in class. Two weeks before college I realized that because of the pandemic classes will still be online. So I decided to suspend my career until I can at least take a few classes in college. My senior year will be a year I will always remember. When our lives changed in the blink of an eye, the virus destroyed many families.