From weekly coronavirus testing to required medical masks, the classes of 2023 through 2026 went through the peak of the pandemic while tackling college academics.
But the class of 2027 will experience something completely different. Trojan Check, an app through which students performed mandatory daily symptom checks, will be foreign to them, and they will only be required to wear masks at the University upon entering the Engemann Student Health Center when having symptoms. Essentially, their college experience will most likely be one where the coronavirus pandemic seems to have never happened.
Nobert Otieno, an incoming freshman majoring in film and TV production, said the coronavirus pandemic threw a curveball at him in high school, altering the course of his four years thereby preventing him from continuing track and field and other extracurriculars that he was excited to…
