God, it feels awful to read old news articles that say stuff like, "yeah mask mandates should be gone by the end of the 19-20 school year", "oh, COVID will be gone by Thanksgiving", "With luck, the pandemic will be over by July 4th".
Also I just had my first day of sophomore year. We wore masks but everyone was in very close quarters, way more so than last year, so it felt like an awkward middle ground. And for some reason a bunch of kids' schedueles were messed up, including mine, so a lot of us just sat in the library with no explanation given, it was super annoying.