Covid’s Price Thr the Eyes of a Stu spread far. Oh boy was I wrong. Then, through time I realized that it was serious and my opinion changed on everything. Cases rising by the thousands, death the same way. I really became cautious of the virus when my good friend got it. He didn’t have a great time with it and now I knew that anyone could get it, even me.
Aidan Sikorski The pandemic has been...interesting. It’s been around for a year now and just keeps surprising me. At first it was just a free twoweek break, something all students were happy about. Then another break after that made it seem like a miracle for students. Quickly we all realized that it wasn’t the break we were hoping for; there was a catch. We had school from home. The country closed everything down. Unless going to the grocery store was one of your pastimes, then you weren’t likely having fun. These new masks were something we had to wear, for a few weeks, right? We were all used to everything working out, and then realized that maybe it’s worse than they made it seem. Instead of one month, it became one year. At first, I told myself it would all be back to normal soon. It was all just a small little delay that would never affect me in a bad way. But it ended up being something much worse. The life that was supposed to be a detour became the norm. It was confusing at first, wearing masks and the six feet stuff. Looking back when it all started I thought it was all an overreaction and that this new virus wouldn’t
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The worst part about the pandemic was that I couldn’t be with my friends and some of my family for a big part of it. There was nothing to do other than stare at a ceiling all day, maybe playing video games and practicing some hobbies. Just something that passes the time as best as possible. But once restrictions started to get lifted it became better, being able to go out and see friends and do some things. The question of what school was going to be like was one of the most uncertain things during this pandemic. It ended up being in person, but we went online a lot too. It was weird going from online to in school to online every few weeks, but it was nothing that really affected anything. I really enjoyed online classes this year and was fine with doing what was necessary to keep us working. All in all, the pandemic has been a bumpy ride but we all moved through it and adjusted. F
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Aidan Sikorski is a St. Francis sophomore from South Buffalo. He started playing the guitar about eight years ago and says he got a lot better and played a lot more over the Covid “lockdown”. Aidan says playing the guitar is a good outlet for him. What are his plans for the future? While he is not quite sure what the future holds career wise he did say that he always wanted to be a Buffalo Firefighter like his dad and most assuredly, he will continue playing guitar.
Grayson Warner @It was Friday, March 13; we all talked and joked about the Coronavirus, the idea of a free two-week vacation brightened my day and put a smile on my face. Little did I know what would come of this. I was excited to sleep in for a couple weeks and play video games but the things I had once loved and dreamed of doing every day would come to haunt me. There is a certain dark reality of our perfect world that we do not see until we are present in it. @At the beginning I figured it would be much like the flu. I thought that in a couple weeks it would all blow over and we would be back in school better than ever ready to continue with our lives; I was wrong. My sleep schedule fell apart as my diet and exercise habits slowly regressed into a pathetic state. To my surprise I was bored sleeping and playing video games all day; I was bored in a “perfect world.” It was at this time when the struggle truly began, I could not see my friends or anybody other than my family for that matter and I began to fantasize walks outside simply because it was a change of scenery. As I was stuck inside and my physical and mental health diminished,
