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• 2020-06-05

  Non-classic Student in the Time of COVID-19

  He was struck suddenly by the massage, a life changing massage which indeed deconstructs his unwanted college life but also his entire plan of how to waste it. The massage is, with years process, the approval of major change request, which he actually had expected a deny because of his junior status. Since it happened, he suddenly lost his plan about next school year and the summer vacation between. As an international student, he was planing a summer school which becomes unnecessary now, and he is not sure how to do exactly. The thing is almost all of his friends returned home either by airplane or automobile and he really has nothing to do in such pandemic. "I guess I should go home." he tells himself repeatedly and finally buys an airline ticket without clue if it would be canceled which is frequent in pandemic. Now all he can do is waiting, waiting for the eradication of last COVID-19 virus, waiting for the lovely first class next year, waiting for the familiar room home next month, waiting for the ticket confirmation next week, waiting for the confidence in final next time, waiting for the salute of professor next lecture, waiting for the oil boiling next meal, and waiting for the sunshine next morning. He is doubting if life must be passive, and suddenly wind strikes curtain; he choose to shut the window, and the street lamps outside are still on.
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  2020-05-15

  Melisa Perez, Dougherty Family College, HIST 115

  A friend of mine studied a broad here in MN, I had the privilege to get to know her during her senior year as a college student. With the whole pandemic, she wasn’t able to go back to her home country it was unknown when she will be able to return back. A week ago, she found out that today will be her chance to leave. Although we are both happy that she is able to go back home, it was sad to know that we wouldn’t be able to say goodbye to each other due COVID-19. Although it seems like she is just going back to visit her family, it studently hits me that we are actually living in a time like this. I really wish I was able to send her off and give her one last hug since we don’t know when we will see each other again. It’s not a goodbye, it’s a see you soon.
• 2020-05-14

  The last "normal day"

  It was on March, 9 2020 that everything changed my whole college experience. Being a first year in college it was definitely a learning experience while everything was going good until that day when I left Pima Community College for the last time that semester. When i left that day I had no idea not even a thought that, that would be my last day on campus for the semester. It was our spring break that next week so we were out of school regardless until I received an email saying that they were going to extend spring break a few more days due to the whole pandemic. While the cases were rising and rising it was not looking good around the world in general with people dying everyday there was no way that we would return to in person classes for the rest of the semester. I received an email from all of my professors saying that we would transition to online learning and having online lectures. And to this day we had online lectures however it is the end of the semester and all classes are finished and we can only hope that we will get in person classes in the fall semester of 2020.
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  2020-05-13

  My Journal

  My Journal