The first year of college is hard enough on its own, as students learn their way around campus, figure out how to study and balance classes, and make new friends. It’s been much harder for this year’s freshmen, who spent more than half of their high-school careers dealing with the disruptions of the pandemic.
To get a feel for what that transition has been like, we asked first-year students from around the country one question: What is something they missed out on in high school because of the pandemic, and how did that affect their first semester in college?
These conversations — in the students’ own words — have been edited for length and clarity.
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