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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]