High school is a hard time no matter who you ask or what you went through, but Covid has added pressure, dropped our mental health, and has made it hard to pass. For me, Covid started half way through my freshman year, and at first I didn’t think it was going to be that big of a deal, I mean hey, we got 3 weeks of no school and staying home. Soon after, my feelings changed. It started as if it was only a couple weeks, and then it turned into the rest of my freshman year. Now my online experience may have not been as bad as others due to my prior experience in online school. Although, whenever we went back to school everything changed. I wasn’t allowed to be around friends and we had to stay 6 feet apart. I thought it was all like a movie. We had to wear masks to school and everywhere we went, I had to make sure I stayed away because the last thing I wanted to do was catch the terrible virus. Unfortunately, in February of 2021, I caught that nasty virus that made me sleep all day and struggle to breathe. I was home from school for three weeks, and I was struggling. I wasn’t allowed to be near anyone because my family never had it at the same time I did. I was stuck in my room alone and started giving up on school, cause the last thing I wanted was to do all of my school work while I felt like I had been hit by a bus. When I returned to school everything became harder, I struggled between catching up on the work I missed and trying to learn all new things. My mental health plummeted because of all of the stress of the assignments I had. Unfortunately, I had no motivation and I was oftentimes stressed looking at my grades because they didn’t resemble what I could do. It took me 2 months to get my grades back. Covid has been a major factor in my life, I mean everything we do is either restricted or changed for Covid, and nobody will ever know when it will go back to normal. This is our new normal and we have to learn to cope and overcome this terrible virus.