Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_23
2020-06-08
I offer two songs written in the COVID time as personal reflections - one lighthearted and one more serious: No Yeast (https://youtu.be/eEndFeL87-0…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_24
2020-06-16
We have created a podcast called the Social Distance Warriors Podcast, which has documented some stories and interviews with members of the WWU…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_25
2020-10-13
Online classes have been both better and worse than traditional classes. I enjoy being able to watch the recordings of lectures whenever I want, so I…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_28
2020-11-10
This covid-19 pandemic has affected everyone and caused a lot of change. My personal experience of these hard times is not very positive and it is…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_30
2020-12-01
It’s difficult to explain how college has been during the COVID-19 pandemic. Everything is touched by this virus. I can’t join in-person clubs or…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_32
2020-12-05
Going into freshman year I was looking forward to getting a fresh start out of high school, enjoying the beautiful Western campus, and meeting new…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_33
2021-01-28
I would like the future community/university to acknowledge the possibility that life as we know it can change in the blink of an eye. Your loved…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_34
2021-02-03
Covid-19 has had more of an impact than I initially thought. I remember when classes were first put online and we were sent home, back in March of…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_40
2021-02-22
COVID-19 has certainly taken its toll on normal day to day life compared to how it was prior to the pandemic. As we have seen the pandemic spread and…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_41
2021-02-22
Making the transition to online learning, for many, including myself, has been very difficult. Whilst the college atmosphere before the pandemic was…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_42
2021-02-22
In Winter 2020, I agonized over Microbiology keeping me from attending office hours for Animal Behavior. Of course, since it was Microbiology, it was…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_43
2021-02-24
2020 was definitely a year I wished the pandemic didn’t occur in. The year I would become an adult, the year I would graduate high school with my…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_44
2021-02-25
I’ll never forget the night when my boyfriend first told me about the cases in China. It was December 2019 and I never could have predicted that it…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_45
2021-03-03
At the beginning of 2020 COVID-19 didn’t seem real, or more like it was something that was happening to other states but not Washington, and…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_46
2021-03-06
Like many others, the pandemic has changed my life drastically. I unfortunately lost my job which has altered my daily routine significantly. I am…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_47
2021-03-10
At the start of the pandemic in March, I believed like many others that we would be back to “normal” quickly. I remember being in class and having a…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_48
2021-03-11
Covid has been both a blessing and a curse in that despite it having disrupted previously consistent daily routines of many, it’s allowed others to…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_49
2021-03-11
I am a student in my senior year of my bachelors. The pandemic has changed my life dramatically during what I thought would be a really exciting time…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_50
2021-03-12
Throughout this Covid-19 pandemic I have seen and undergone several personal, societal, and academic changes. Everyone, including myself, wears masks…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_51
2021-03-12
When the pandemic began, it took some time to realize that where others were suffering from the loss of frequent interactions with others and the…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_52
2021-03-13
Currently, I am in my second year at Western, but this is the first time I have done a full year of school fully online. If you had asked me during…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_53
2021-03-14
Often, I feel like I’m living in the Sims. Toward the beginning of the pandemic, I actually went out and got a job, having just been a student for…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_54
2021-03-14
In August of 2020, my partner and I moved into our first home together. Honestly, I think this is the best thing I did to help myself succeed during…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_55
2021-03-14
When COVID first started spreading in the US and was becoming an issue, I assumed it would be a somewhat more intense version of the flu and that it…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_56
2021-03-16
My COVID experience has been very up and down from the start of the pandemic. In the beginning it seemed like a beneficial short break, as rules were…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_57
2021-11-08
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.…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_58
2021-11-11
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,…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_59
2021-11-11
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…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_60
2021-11-16
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,…
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_61
2021-11-17
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,…
