{"id":12060,"date":"2024-04-15T18:13:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T18:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=12060"},"modified":"2024-04-15T18:13:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T18:13:38","slug":"class-of-2024-wrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2024\/04\/15\/class-of-2024-wrapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2024 wrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(By Meredith Haas \u201924, editor-in-chief)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To say it has been a long four years for LVC\u2019s class of 2024 would be an understatement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of us were ready to leave high school behind, eager to start our college journeys. Yet our college careers didn\u2019t quite start how our high school senior selves envisioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fall 2020, we were greeted by a barren campus, one where only half the student body was allowed to move back on time. Students knew there would be endless health and safety guidelines, but we were excited, nonetheless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The start of our college experience was characterized by mask-wearing, social distancing and filling out a daily symptom tracker to ensure we could go to class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We followed arrows on the floors of the hallways and double-sanitized our hands. Emails were checked constantly, begging to not receive an email that we\u2019ve been contact-traced or that an additional policy had gone into effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We sat outside just to get some time together. We wore masks in each other\u2019s rooms and ate at dining hall tables separated with plastic dividers. Students chose to pass the time by scrolling endlessly on Tik Tok and sharing codes to Among Us games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet all of the precautions in place for us proved not to be enough. The Dutchmen were sent home \u2013 twice \u2013 when COVID numbers got too high, forcing us to pack up our rooms and take courses via Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing about our first two years of college was normal, but it was all we knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t until the fall of 2022 that we removed our masks and truly saw each other\u2019s faces. We ditched the Zoom app for in-person classes, began crowding in the dining hall and finally truly felt like we were college students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though I was so frustrated with the situation in the moment, I can\u2019t help but look back and feel grateful that I had even two years of normalcy as a Dutchman. While I surely didn\u2019t have the \u2018authentic\u2019 college experiences my younger self dreamed of, there was so much to be learned from the cards we were dealt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet despite the adversity we faced throughout our college journey, those days feel like forever ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come May 11, we will finally make our way across the stage \u2013 this time in front of a full audience \u2013 where we will be handed our diploma instead of picking it up off a lousy table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, congratulations to LVC\u2019s class of 2024! Our hard work, determination and perseverance through these unprecedented times has undoubtedly paid off.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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