A Deep Look at One Classroom A reporter’s embed with a high school class tells the story of this interrupted, destabilizing school year. May 14, 2021 The woes of sophomore year Susan Dominus, a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, spent much of the school year with one sophomore class in Columbia, Mo. Today we’re breaking our usual weekly schedule to tell you about her phenomenal article chronicling the experience. “When I started the piece, I thought I was going to write about the academic challenges of remote learning,” Susan said. “It was only when I started speaking to the students that I realized how in depth the psychological problems were — that that was a huge defining part of this year.”