Mount Pleasant Magazine Documenting Covid-19

105 www.CoronavirusMag.com | www.ReadMPM.com | www.ILoveMountPleasant.com feature educ ion S enior year is an idealized time in American culture — a period of celebrations, planning the future and reckoning with one’s identity. We’ve all watched movies and heard songs that invoke the nostalgia of senior year, and we all have a memory or two to share from our own. For the graduates of spring 2020, however, expectations have taken a sharp and unexpected turn. High school seniors sacrificed the excitement of one last prom, Senior Skip Day and other traditions, while college seniors cut short valuable internships and realized getting that first job might be tough. For Audrey Marx, a senior at Wando High School, the COVID-19 quarantine has been a time to reflect on things that high-school students BY DENISE K. JAMES Pomp and Extenuating Circumstance Audrey Marx.