Iola High School’s Class of 2021 attended 662 days of school, which rounds out to more than 19 million seconds, senior Sidney Shelby told her fellow classmates at Saturday’s graduation ceremony.
“Our freshman year may be so far away but it still feels like yesterday,” she said.
Shelby used math as a poignant tribute to the final chapter of high school, which was beset by a global health pandemic.
“You can’t take anything for granted,” she said. “You’re not guaranteed anything. Any day. Any hour, minute or second. We’ve all been given a short amount of time in this world.”