Witnessing a total solar eclipse is awe-inspiring. On Monday, April 8, the skies over a vast stretch of North America momentarily watched darken as the moon gracefully slid across the sun, creating a celestial spectacle known as a total solar eclipse.
The last eclipse happened in August of 2017. The next time eclipse will occur in 2044, by then we will all be grown up, so this was an intriguing event for all. Now what are people’s thoughts and feelings about the eclipse?
Well for Estefany Montana, 18, a first-year Spanish major, she believes the eclipse is such a fascinating event and, in her words,
“It’s so weird to think that the moon and sun crossing each other can have such a uniting effect on people.”
“My friends and I got together to watch the solar eclipse, it was such a cool moment, I’m glad I got to enjoy it with them.”
Natalie Nyugen, 18, a first-year physical therapy major, wondered before the event “if the eclipse is going to change people’s personalities. I have heard stories about how people act differently and believe something bad is going to happen to the world like the whole “Jesus is coming now.”
Drew Phipps, 19, a second-year psychology major, hope that it will be just like a normal day,
“People over fantasize about the eclipse, but it really isn’t special, just a step in the process until it goes back to normal,” although he would still like to experience it and yesterday, he got to.
His dad called out of work and took his family to the lake to watch the eclipse. His mother’s work provided them with glasses, so they got to enjoy being together and watching it for the first time.
For Phipps, he enjoyed it much better than he thought he would “Next time there will be a full total eclipse in North America we will all be grown up, isn’t at crazy to believe?
