Online school is hard, but procrastination is worse
Hi, my name is Melody Nicole Batacan, and I am currently ending my junior year of high school.
Knowing that online working can be very difficult and stressful to some, people may not have the best results as they wish they could have in-person learning.
There were many times that I wish I could have given up and took a break from what has been going on. But even if I were to give up, time doesn’t stop with me. I have learned and made many mistakes without knowing that school work can build up, which causes procrastination. Procrastination is just another thing waiting to cause you more stress. By saying that time doesn’t wait for you explains why you should get ahead and start thinking further.
Melody Nicole Batacan, ‘Ele’ele
College students returning home face hardships
Due to COVID-19 guidelines and restrictions, returning college students find it difficult to return home without having to adhere to a mandatory quarantine.
The Hawai‘i Safe Travels requires trans-Pacific returning college students to take the COVID test 72 hours prior to their last flight home, and have a negative test result uploaded before their last connecting flight home.
If results are not uploaded by that time, these students are forced to quarantine in a resort bubble with high costs.
Many of these students are flying in from the Mideast and beyond, which requires 11+ hours total to get home.
Finding an approved testing center is difficult for students who do not commute, as well as getting the test in at the right time with the right time-zone difference.
Another complication they may face is a delay in flights when you have multiple stops, causing missing connecting flights and no where to stay. Flight delays also interfere with the timing of the COVID test taken based on your last flight connection.
In my opinion, any returning residents, especially returning college students, should at least be able to quarantine at home for the minimum 3 days, then test out of quarantine. This option leaves the returning residents with a place to stay and no additional high costs added on to their financial difficulties.
Isley Ulanday, Kalaheo
Tomorrow. Or today. Depending on your time. Let me tell you a story. Life take many roads and turns and experiences. Someone said that an education is the most valuable commodity around. Anywhere you go, it’s yours if you use it well. And this goes for anything in life. I was commenting on gadgets, and how many people struggle with education. They feel like myself, lack of experience, therefore no knowledge of a topic. I’ll you a simple problem and you tell me if this is so or not so on your part and graduation. Solving problems. If you know electronics and gadgets, then you would know that by adding a diode to the negative black ground before the component, you would have solved the shortage or no lights to your radio change. Just knowing this may not be enough for the average person into this hobby or trade or job. Because he or she may not stand the test and fail when it comes down to collect. But knowledge in your field, even electronics, this knowledge takes you a long ways. Even if you have never changed a car stereo in your life. This knowledge if you have it and have withstood the test of time, you are considered knowledgeable and applicable to your field of electronics. Or any field you choose. And you’ll get paid just for knowing this. Graduation in this area, is the most important thing for you, if you want to become that person you desire to be. Not just in electronics, but in any field of choice.
Congrats to all seniors graduating high school. And always remember, the knowledge that withstands the test of time, are the people getting the pay. Even without that experience, this thought counts as experience and knowledge. Remember this, and you take your career by storm and succeed.
If you must know, I am a Waimea High School graduate class of 1977. I work two jobs. I drive Geek squads are us at Best Buy. In Honolulu. I change and work on what ever they tell me to do in people’s houses. And my other job is I also work sometimes part time at downtown area. I work in one of the business offices. I help out doing some paper work. That is seasonal though. So I only work there during there hours of operation. It is a living and i make do doing that. Not necessarily in accounting. More data sheets and products knowledge and cost analysis. But it’s a job.
The test must be performed no more than 72 hrs before the traveler’s SCHEDULED departure time from their transpacific flight to Hawaii. If their flight is delayed it doesn’t matter, only the official original scheduled departure time is used when calculating the “not more than 72 hrs prior to departure of your flight that lands in Hawaii”.
Your arrival time in Hawaii does not matter, nor does your departure time on any legs of your multi-leg trip prior to your transpacific flight leg to Hawaii.
For example, if you fly from Mexico City to Los Angeles (LAX), then another flight from Los Angeles to HNL or LIH, only the scheduled departure time of the LAX flight to Hawaii is used.
Lastly time zones DO MATTER and it’s easy to get tripped up on that, be certain to think through that carefully. For example, for a traveler flying from New York to LAX, connecting to another flight on to HNL or LIH, you must account for the three hour time zone difference between NYC and LAX if getting your test in NYC. The time zone difference between LAX and LIH is not relevant so don’t worry about that. Therefore If the test is done in NYC and the LAX to Hawaii flight is scheduled to depart at 2pm Pacific Time, then that NYC test must be taken no earlier than 5pm Eastern Time 3 days before the LAX scheduled departure.
If flying from west across the international dateline, say Hong Kong (HKN) to HNL, then carefully account for that 1 day difference as well.
Hope this helps.
I know of a couple from Arizona who took their tests okay, but their flight was cancelled and they were rescheduled on a much later flight. Upon arrival in Hawaii they were forced to return because it had been more than 72 hours….
Anyone know what gives with the rental car business? Current weekly rate for an economy class car is in the neighborhood of $1000, if you can find one. Is there a real shortage and if so why? Does this qualify as price gouging? If not it should.