This year the school day starts five minutes later and is a whole hour shorter. This alone would make students happy, but there is an extra plus associated with Zoom School — you really don’t have to go anywhere to attend it. 

Consider the advantages: Now you can set your alarm for a minute before school starts and still make it on time. This is not recommended but it is proven possible by countless students everyday logging into Zoom with groggy eyes and a still-asleep brain.

You might be thinking, how is this different from real school? Students are tired there too, but rolling over to the other side only to flip open your computer and be at school is a whole new level of laziness, where it is considered a plus if students actually get out of bed for first period! Carrying an “I woke up like this” attitude, Senior Caroline Somoza wakes up with her two dogs in her bed every morning and opens her computer to class. “Monday mornings are the worst,” she said. “I just sit in bed all day and stare at Zoom,” she said.

You might not be the type to do school in bed but that just means you roll out of bed and zombie walk across the room or down the stairs to do school only minutes after you wake up. So many students eat during first period that the whole exercise should be given a new name — let’s call it “breakfast.” “I make oatmeal in the kitchen during class, then I take it upstairs and eat in bed,” said senior Maddie Bartlett. “Life could not be any better.”

There are the exceptional few that wake up before school and get ready for the day. They may pretend like everything is normal, but others have embraced the new normal and the casualness that it has brought to their school environment . The only difference is some will do it with pants on and the rest of us will still be brushing our teeth on Zoom.