When I look back on this time in my life I will remember all the things I lost my senior year. So far they haven’t said they’re going to cancel graduation or senior dinner dance, but all I can do is think it's only a matter of time before it’s all gone.

When they first announced they were closing school I remember I had been in Florida the past week and coming back and not going to school seemed like the best thing. Everyone was excited to have no school and to be able to stay home everyday, but we weren't thinking about the long term.

A couple weeks after when we started doing online schooling everyone that was excited to stay home was now only wishing they could go back. Many seniors are in advanced courses and learning from home is harder than we thought.

Senior Jessica Hyman said, “It’s hard to maintain the demanding expectations of all the advanced classes. The classes are hard enough to start with and having to teach ourselves just sucks.”

My friends and I were even supposed to go to prom again this year and now since they've moved it to next fall we won't get the chance to wear the dresses we all bought. Senior Alexis Lighthall said, “I didn't get the best experience with my prom so I was hoping I would get to redo that with my friends this year and now I don’t get the chance to.”

Being quarantined the past month has sucked. I miss my friends and being able to go to school. At this point, I don’t even want to leave my room because I’m sick of seeing the same faces all the time. I will never take the time we have in the real world for granted again.

Senior Devanee Sabin said, “At first, things were easy. We would sleep in and we weren't worried about losing our senior memories. We thought this was just temporary. Now I wake up and do school work and then I go to work where I'm scared the whole time I could carry this virus home with me.”

I also work with Devanee and I will never forget the fear of bringing this virus home and giving it to my family. I work almost everyday and not a day goes by that I do not worry about losing someone close to me over this deadly virus.