Telling Our Stories: Western's Response to COVID-19

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WWU COVID story 64: Seda Foley
WWU COVID story 64: Seda Foley
I don’t think I ever really realize when something big is happening around me, something that is bigger than myself. At least I didn’t really think much of it when we got the text that classes were going online, in fact I was a little excited. I assumed this whole ... [open story for full text]
WWU COVID story 61: Anonymous
WWU COVID story 61: Anonymous
When we left school the week before spring break to mitigate the spread of a new disease, we didn’t realize the ways it would affect our educations, careers, and livelihoods. We went online at the end of my first year and in many ways, I still feel like a Freshman ... [open story for full text]
WWU COVID story 63: Dom Bryan
WWU COVID story 63: Dom Bryan
It was the end of February in 2020, I was sitting on some concrete steps on a stranger’s stoop in North Carolina. The air around me was muggy, clinging to my clothes. Forming beads of sweat on my brow. Spring was coming quickly. It was ... [open story for full text]
WWU COVID story 62: Anonymous
WWU COVID story 62: Anonymous
I took a few years off school after I graduated from high school and didn’t apply to Western until I was absolutely sure I wanted to be back in school. Unfortunately, I was to start my first year in the Fall of 2020, when the COVID-19 situation was bleak as ever. T... [open story for full text]
WWU COVID story 60: Anonymous
WWU COVID story 60: Anonymous
I must say, COVID-19 did give me a rare opportunity to live with my family again for a year. It felt as though I had taken an educational gap year, emphasis on the gap year. I got to eat the food they cooked, live under their roof, hang out with my siblings again a... [open story for full text]
WWU COVID story 59: Brandt Shelden
WWU COVID story 59: Brandt Shelden
I have been lucky enough to financially survive the pandemic (thus far) and so my experience with the pandemic has been centered much more on the social and political aspects than on the economic aspects. I have never really been a social person; I've never gone ou... [open story for full text]
WWU COVID story 58: Michelle Kjolso
WWU COVID story 58: Michelle Kjolso
I’m here, in the middle of this mess we call a Pandemic. We are living in Covid times; it’s not great. We are ok. We are pressing on. We are strong, resilient, and fighting. We are also assholes. Selfish, selfish assholes. Science tells us how to be safe and we don... [open story for full text]
WWU COVID story 57: Megan Terrell
WWU COVID story 57: Megan Terrell
The most challenging thing for me during COVID would have to be the fact that it makes it a lot difficult to stay on track during my online classes. I always get distracted by something, and then I miss something important that my professor may have said, which lea... [open story for full text]