The author, not pictured, just graduated from college.
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- I graduated high school in 2020, so I didn't get the normal graduation ceremony.
- The pandemic also ruined my classes and social life at college the first year.
- Now that I'm graduating from the New School, I'm happy I finally get to celebrate properly.
In March 2020, when the world stopped for the COVID pandemic, my small high school in New Jersey sent an email explaining our spring...