Item
From Unheard of to Unheard
Title (Dublin Core)
From Unheard of to Unheard
Disclaimer (Dublin Core)
DISCLAIMER: This item may have been submitted in response to a school assignment prompt. See Linked Data.
Description (Dublin Core)
This excerpt outlines how the start of the pandemic affected the noise level of an undergraduate college campus.
When I ventured back to my undergraduate college campus the week COVID-19 started, campus should have been buzzing with classmates happy to be back from spring break. The week after spring break is normally full of students hanging out and joking around. Even only a few days away from each other creates an audible laughter throughout campus. Not this year. What few students were on campus had a mission: get their belongings from their dorm and get off campus. They were focuses, scared, and silent. There were few students and even fewer conversations. Running engines, doors opening and closing, and the birds were the only noises emerging from campus. What is usually one of the loudest weeks of the school year was completely silent—something we would have considered unheard of was literally unheard.
Date (Dublin Core)
March 16, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Abigail Houchin
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Abigail Houchin
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST643
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Text Story
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Education--Universities
English
Emotion
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
spring break
silence
moving out
fear
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
Arizona State University
HIST643
Sensory History
University of Northwestern St Paul
Minnesota
Silence
Collection (Dublin Core)
College COVID Stories
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
10/15/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
10/22/2021
06/27/2023
Item sets
This item was submitted on October 15, 2021 by Abigail Houchin 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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