There was a greater need for poll workers this year due to the pandemic. Since most poll workers are older, they are at a greater risk for the novel coronavirus. They need young volunteers who are interested in learning about the polls and elections.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, you may have seen the newest environmental ‘trend.’ Scooters. These scooters are everywhere in Old Town and are beginning to pop up in surrounding areas and the West End. You can’t walk two feet without bumping into a capitalist electric moneymaker.

One morning, days before that fateful Saturday when you have to take the SAT, you get a notification from the College Board through your gmail account. The subject line contains five simple words: “Update Regarding September SAT Registration.” You open the email to learn that your test site has closed and your SAT is cancelled.

As I scroll through Instagram these days, I never would have guessed that our world is in a pandemic. And no, it is not because my feed is overtaken with aesthetically edited posts of books and food. It is because so many of my peers appear in pictures with their friends, no masks in sight, the distance between them closer to six millimeters than six feet.