As the holidays approach, COVID-19 continues to spread and new variants are developing. What does this mean for families looking to celebrate together? How can COVID-19 and other variants affect us after the holidays? 

 As the first day of high school approached, it was my very first time attending high school. Online. Never in a million years would I have thought I would be doing school online. Meeting all my new teachers across the computer felt peculiar to me. As an 8th grader in middle school, I never thought halfway through the year I would be entering quarantine for a year due to a worldwide pandemic. The feeling of staying inside for months and not being able to go out made me feel stressed out. Everything felt like it happened in a matter of seconds. It felt like the rest of 8th-grade wasn’t even real. I blinked and I was attending high school... online.