Item
How am I Supposed to be a Student When the World is Burning Down Around Me? A Student’s Personal Experience
Title (Dublin Core)
How am I Supposed to be a Student When the World is Burning Down Around Me? A Student’s Personal Experience
Description (Dublin Core)
I wanted to share the kitchen table's image in my family's house because it has become my workspace and classroom. I have my laptop, water, and food in the image because the virtual college has become a non-stop task. As an undergraduate student transitioning to virtual learning, I have struggled greatly. The weekdays are filled with zoom classes, discussion boards, dozens of essays, and monotonous assignments that feel like busywork. Weekdays and weekends are the same. Universities and professors have maintained high expectations for students even though we are in a pandemic, economic depression, detrimental election year, and significant social justice movement.
Most days, I struggle to want to be the best student I can be when I feel less like a person. It is difficult to get out of bed, especially as hope fades every day with an increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths, people becoming jobless, homeless, and the human rights of so many people being violated. It feels insane sometimes to log on for hours when the world seems to be burning down around me.
Most days, I struggle to want to be the best student I can be when I feel less like a person. It is difficult to get out of bed, especially as hope fades every day with an increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths, people becoming jobless, homeless, and the human rights of so many people being violated. It feels insane sometimes to log on for hours when the world seems to be burning down around me.
Date (Dublin Core)
October 27, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Camryn Blackmon
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HS3390
Partner (Dublin Core)
St. Mary's University
Type (Dublin Core)
photograph
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Education--Universities
English
Emotion
English
Health & Wellness
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
#coveryourfangs
HS3390
virtual learning
mental health
workspace
kitchen table
social justice
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
#coveryourfangs
HS3390
virtual learning
mental health
learning from home
coping
struggle
exhausted
Collection (Dublin Core)
College COVID Stories
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Exhibit (Dublin Core)
#CoverYourFangs>Commuting and First-Year Students
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
10/27/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
10/29/2020
03/05/2021
07/16/2021
10/18/2021
This item was submitted on October 27, 2020 by Camryn Blackmon using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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