[benmller313]

Not feeling a lot of sympathy. How did anyone expect this to go any other way?

[apetresc]

Huh, who's 'anyone'? College applications happened last December, when nobody was realistically expecting this.

[icedchai]

Everyone, I think. There was a whole 8 months between application, the pandemic, acceptance, the continuing pandemic, and start of school. By March - April it was pretty clear things were headed in this direction.