“Life is a practice in improv,” says a Quebec college senior who won a scholarship for her candid musings on the theme ‘How the coronavirus affected my final semester.’

The contest, sponsored by greatergood.org, invited high school and college seniors to record a selfie video that answers the question: How did the coronavirus change your senior year? Participants included 379 students worldwide in 49 countries, but it was a 19-year-old film student who stole the hearts of judges in The “Class of 2020” Challenge.

Graduating from John Abbott College, April Judd used humor and creative edits to depict what life was like moving back in with her family and missing the chance to say goodbye to all her friends at the arts college.

Her inspiring message details how the class of 2020 can use this experience to their advantage and “mold the universe into the future they want to see”.

The pandemic of crisis actually caused April to see the beauty in what our world is going through.

“I don’t want to go back to the way things were… I want to have a heightened appreciation for all the things that make life full.”