By Aaliyah Shipe Three years ago, at the onset of COVID-19, the class of 2023 were terrified freshman. This year, they are the first graduating class with no restrictions whatsoever. Today I lay my pen aside and allow their story to come full circle. Aaliyah Shipe wrote the first story for The Tennessee Tribune on March 21st of 2020 as a scared freshman watching the world shutdown around her and her fellow classmates around the world as COVID began to ravish the world. Here, as a confident senior, in her own words, is the rest of their story. — Vivian…