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Simmone Shah

Reporter at TIME - Time.com

Simmone Shah is a reporter at TIME. She covers international and tech news.

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  • TIME - Time.com
    1 article
  • Time Magazine

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  • Graduating Seniors Reflect on a College Experience That Began in Isolation
    6 May 2024—TIME - Time.com
    By Simmone Shah May 6, 2024 1:24 PM EDT If you ask the class of 2024, they will tell you: college was nothing like the movies made it out to be. It was during some of the hardest days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 that they said goodbye to their high school classmates at social-distanced graduations before embarking to college—on Zoom. Even after they were able to move into dorm rooms and attend classes in lecture halls, many say that the impact of a virtual freshman year still lingered....