KUT Maydelid Vasquez, Yazzen Turk and Daniela Velazquez are high school seniors at the Austin Independent School District.
The graduating class of 2021 might be the most unique in a generation.
Their entire last year of high school, and part of their junior year, was dominated by the pandemic. That meant learning from bedrooms, adjusted sports seasons and dramatic changes to the events that cap off the high school experience. These students had to figure out what their lives would be like after high school during a period of uncertainty and while dealing with the same motivation slumps many of us also had.
The graduating class of 2021 might be the most unique in a generation.
Their entire last year of high school, and part of their junior year, was dominated by the pandemic. That meant learning from bedrooms, adjusted sports seasons and dramatic changes to the events that cap off the high school experience. These students had to figure out what their lives would be like after high school during a period of uncertainty and while dealing with the same motivation slumps many of us also had.
Three seniors in the Austin Independent School District shared with KUT some of the experiences they faced during this uncommon year: