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Collected Item: “A Small COVID19 Letter”

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A Small COVID19 Letter

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

This is a text letter I made on the browser Word.

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

As a new-coming highschool student, I was really expecting to have a good fresh year and new beginnings. While we all got new beginnings, it was definitely not good ones. Instead of enjoying my first year of highschool in a normal daily setting, I was strapped to eyeing my laptop from my bed at all times, checking notifications for new work to be completed and having video conferences with my teachers. As it was all so rushed and sudden, for me it was quite an overwhelming experience. At some points I really began to stress from all the overdue and uncompleted work. It seems many people in the world think that we are all suddenly care-free with nothing to do because of this virus, but for cases like mine, that isn't true at all. The message I've put in the letter is to not take things too carelessly, because that's what I think many people in the world are doing right now. It's an important message because you never know what might happen if you don't take a little caution to things.

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Alina Pham

Give this story a date.

2020-06-12T15:19
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