SVT has produced figures that show that more people are looking for work among the first so-called corona litter compared with previous years, while almost 30 percent more 19-year-olds applied for higher education in the autumn compared with the year before.

Anna completed her plans for university studies and studies for preschool teachers on Gotland since the autumn of 2020, but with all distance learning.

- It feels strange to get to know each other via the computer and never meet in real life, she says.

For Tim, who attended the hotel and tourism program in high school and had hopes of continuing to work at the hotel where he practiced, the plans went awry when the corona pandemic swept across Sweden last spring.

- It felt like a pure slap in the face - really, really sour!

Hear Tim Leksell and Anna Bogren talk about life after the student in the wake of the pandemic in the video above.