Composition instructors must contend with and rise above the challenges that now exist in the post-pandemic college composition classroom. Students today are not the same types of students who filled classrooms prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article discusses post-pandemic challenges in college composition classrooms and aims to equip educators with useful strategies and best practices to address those challenges. Two areas of focus are related to practices that will enhance students' social and writing skills. Rather than continuing to hope for a return to the "normalcy" of the pre-COVID-19 classroom, composition instructors must exhibit flexibility and aim to implement social and reflective writing practices to engage students in the new normal.