In the first week of March, I packed my bags and went home for spring break. I brought pretty much the bare minimum, and no school supplies aside from my laptop. Leaving school for break, the Coronavirus was more of a meme. All of us made fun of it and didn't take it seriously.

A few days before we would've returned back to school, we were informed that spring break would be extended another week. Woohoo! Another week without school. Then, the news progressively got worse. We were being moved to online classes, and we needed to move out of our residence halls at our earliest convenience.

We are now on our second week of online classes, and if we are being completely honest- I hate it. School has always been sort of a happy medium for me. I'm not some kind of amazing 4.0 GPA and 36 ACT score student, but at the same time, I don't hate going to school.

I don't want this paragraph to read like I take my education or college for granted, because I don't. However, I want to say I took class for granted. Real-life, face-to-face school. I want to take paper tests again. Sit in a lecture hall again. The best way I could put it into words is that I miss the experience of education. I've never wanted to actually go to school this bad. If we were to go back right now, I would never skip my 2 o'clock plant biology lecture again.

Mississippi State University

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