Matteo Baez-Giangreco: “My favorite memory from online schooling would be finishing R4 and then just going straight to my kitchen to eat lunch. It felt freeing, [and] it was just chill.”

Tanny Dang: “I didn’t know a certain person. I only knew him by ‘Socko,’ […] until freshman year where I […] finally met him. I was like, ‘You’re Socko?’ And it was […] just a super awful way to start off […] BLS because, like, a bunch of random people are supposed to […] familiarize with each other, even though they don’t have […] face-to-face interactions.”

Nabayit Fassil: “[I remember] teachers’ children running in or their Wi-Fi would be cut out. The whole class would end, […] [and] there’s a lot of times where students’ mics were accidentally unmuted, so you could hear teachers or parents yelling or just them talking to their friends or […] playing games.”

Alex Jaffe: “I wasn’t able to separate school from home life, because you’re literally in the same location. And so it was so easy to put things off. […] There’s an ever-present worry of deadlines while I have to do all these things in my personal life, and it just blended. […] The second I got something down that’s been bugging me for a week or a month, [the] next thing just popped up.”

Aina Nguyen: “I thought gym was kind of funny to do [during] online schooling. They [made] you do jumping jacks in front of the camera and stuff.”

Larry Nguyen: “There was this time when this guy forgot to mute his mic, and he was playing Valorant, so he was just shouting the entire time, all of his comm[unication]s because he didn’t have his headphones plugged in either. So you could slightly […] hear the game sound effects. It was really funny because the teacher got so [mad].”