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How Covid 19 affected me
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First Year Experiences
Home Life
Student Athletes
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Luke Whitehouse
Professor Delahanty
Springfield College seminar
How Covid-19 affected me.
Covid-19 was very impactful in a negative way during the spring. First off it ruined my
winter because I was forced to workout in my basement with body weight exercises and that
took a toll on me. Another reason was in school when we shut down I never thought that would
be the end of my high school tenure. I was very sad when it set in that it really was the end. I
wasn’t able to experience my senior prom, senior trip, aloha day or graduation. These are all
things that i was looking forward to and it really tore me apart. Next was baseball. Our team was
planning on defending our state championship and western mass championship. And I was
planning on cherishing my last moments on the diamond. Well none of that happened. Our
season was cancelled and I would never get to play for our team again. We were such a close
group and to play our last games together without knowing the previous year was a tough pill to
swallow. This summer i had to pick up new hobbies fishing and hiking and it really got me to go
out of my comfort zone which was cool. And finally, one that probably covid had affected
everyone in a way - mental health. The isolation combined with heartbreak almost broke me ina
way.
�How covid affected my life
Luke Whitehouse
�school
In school I couldn’t experience prom, the
final pep rally and graduation. This was
one of the worst things that could have
happened. Every memory that your
supposed to cherish during your senior
year, i couldn’t get to.
�sports
Baseball is my favorite sport
and unfortunately i could not
play my senior year and get the
chance to repeat as a state
champion. The “one last ride”
wasn’t cherishable because i
didn't even know that my junior
year was that.
�The GYM
Working out is a huge part of my
life - it's basically my passion. To
have all the gyms shutdown was
really really hard to deal with. I
couldn’t lift and i had to get
creative. This effected me as i
wasn’t in the shape that i wanted to
be in.
�My summer
I had to develop different
hobbies that were more socially
distant and could be done
alone. I tried hiking, fishing, and
video games. This was really
hard and pushed me out of my
comfort zone.
�My mental health
During covid-19 i had recently
been involved in a breakup and
mentally i was all over the place.
When qurentine was in effect, i felt
lonely and isolated because i
couldn’t hangout with people and
do things to get my mind off her. I
always smiled around my parents
and acted like i was okay and i
ended up being fine, but it did
affect me.
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Cassidy Thompson
The Year I Wish Could Be Forgotten
August 28, 2019, my first day of my senior year of high school. Everything that year
would be perfect. I had an amazing group of friends, a parking spot, a free period at the end of
the day to leave early, and an easy schedule. This was the year that I was going to make New
Balance Track and Field Nationals for hammer throw. I knew where I wanted to go to college
and my essay and application were already sent in. I could not wait for homecoming, prom,
graduation, and senior trips. I had all the important stuff done so I could make the most out of
my senior year. This was going to be the best year of my life, and there was nothing that could
stop it.
-------September 5, 2019. My right wrist, my dominant side, had been bothering me a little
from an injury I acquired in June, so I decided to go get it checked out. I figured it couldn’t be
too bad, as I was throwing and lifting all summer with what I convinced myself was minimal
pain. It was probably just tendonitis or something like that. By stepping in the doctor’s office
that was the start of a downward spiral. They told me I needed to get another x-ray. I didn’t
think much of it at first because I got x-rays in June and there was no break, but I was a little
nervous as the doctor was so adamant on getting more x-rays.
After I got the x-rays, I swore it took an eternity for the doctor to come back into the
room. My dad and I were sitting there trying to be optimistic, but with each passing moment,
our hopes began to fade away, as we knew what our fate would be.
�When the doctor came back in, he had a grim look on his face. He told me the bone was
broken and had been since I first injured it in June. I could barely believe it, but when he pulled
up the x-rays there was no denying it. There was a hole right in the middle of the bone. We
scheduled surgery and went on our way. I guess having a broken wrist isn’t the worst that could
happen. All it meant was that I needed a cast for a few months and surgery. I would be ready to
compete by my spring track season, and that I had much more to look forward to!
--October 4, 2019, the day of my surgery. I honestly wasn’t even that nervous. I just knew
that having surgery would make me better in the long term, even though there was quite a bit of
suffering in the short term. I was more upset about how I had to miss the Homecoming dance, as
it was the first of the many senior traditions to come. But that was okay! I still had Prom in the
spring!
--December 21, 2019, the first day of my indoor track and field season. Although I still
couldn’t throw on my dominant hand, I decided I would switch to my non-dominant to still have
a fun senior season. I quickly realized that there was no way to have a fun season with the head
coach I had. The coach would tell me I wasn’t throwing far enough, and that I needed to be
better. He was never happy for me when I hit a new personal record. Instead he just said that it
needed to go further. Although he caused many tears, I just knew I needed to wait until outdoor
when I could really show him that I could throw.
---
�January 1, 2020. I spent the New Year celebrating with my friends and could not wait for
what was to come. I was graduating in the spring and was heading to Springfield College in the
fall. Nothing could go wrong!
--February 4, 2020, four months after my surgery. I went into my doctor’s office that day
optimistic, but I left feeling crushed. I found out that my wrist would never heal and it would
always cause me pain. It wasn’t that bad because my doctor told me I could still do everything,
but just know that pain might come with it. I left the appointment trying to be positive, excited
to start throwing hammer in the upcoming outdoor season.
--March 12, 2020. Coronavirus was a new term, and people were starting to freak out
about it. NCAA had just cancelled all their winter tournaments. But that wasn’t a big deal, there
was no way this was going to affect my small town.
--March 13, 2020. Of course, it was Friday the Thirteenth. But there was nothing that
could go wrong. That’s just a silly superstition.
We were sitting in the first period when the announcement came on the loudspeaker. We
were going to have two weeks off school due to the Coronavirus. Everyone was a little nervous,
but we didn’t think that much of it. Plus other schools around us were shutting down for 2 weeks
�too. It was just two weeks of vacation and then we would be back up and running to finish out
our senior year.
--Friday, March 20, 2020 the day my school announced they were going to start doing
online learning. This wasn’t that big of a deal because it was only temporary, and this whole
quarantine thing was already starting to get boring anyway.
--May 5, 2020. We had not been to school in person in almost two months. I had not seen
any of my friends in a long time, and all hope was starting to be lost. We had already missed our
senior trip, and we were not very hopeful about prom and graduation in the coming weeks. Our
last shred of hope was lost when Governor Lamont made the announcement that we would not
be going back to school for the remainder of that year. That meant no prom, no graduation, no
chance to see friends, and no track and field nationals. I don’t think I had ever cried so much in
one day.
--June 12, 2020. Our school decided to make the best out of the situation. We were given
a graduation car parade and car ceremony. It wasn’t normal by any means, but it was as close to
closure as we could get, and it felt nice to get some recognition, even if we were the quarantined
class of 2020.
---
�Now, as I sit in my dorm room at Springfield College on October 22, 2020, I still have
many unknowns in my future. Coronavirus is still greatly impacting my life. Not only did I miss
so much, but I now have to wear a mask to do everything, even if it is just to go brush my teeth.
Most of my classes are online, making social interaction difficult, but I am still glad that I am
here. Right now, we have at least 11 cases on campus, with that number increasing greatly in the
past week. The uprise in cases has shut down athletics and quarantined many students.
Everyday they keep telling us something new for when sports can start again. As much as I am
trying to stay hopeful, I feel like my last year is repeating itself all over again.
�
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Springfield College
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Student Athletes
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My Experience of Covid-19
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A Freshmen Student Athlete in the Coronavirus Pandemic
Living in the time of the Coronavirus Pandemic has been very odd to say the least. After
being told I was not going back to college last March, it seemed crazy, and it finally felt like
“wow this is very serious”. Not going to school meant no field hockey for me, and I did not
know how to feel about that. Living at home meant waking up, logging on to my 8:00 AM Bio
lecture every Monday and Tuesday, and debating whether or not to fall back asleep. When I was
at school, it was easier, because I was forced to get up and take notes, now it was all just too
weird. I would log on one class session just to wait ten minutes to log onto the next, without even
having to leave my bedroom. There was no “real” interaction and it didn’t even seem like normal
college. Also, having to stay on Zoom with my Bio Lab professor for three hours once a week
was not exactly something I’d describe as “fun.”
Before, when we attended class in person, my roommate and I would dread heading to
class, but hey at least you get to move around and actually look at real stuff with real people
around you. Instead, we watched videos of dissections -- Woohoo!
The gyms in New York where I live were closed, so I made the most out of my basement
exercise area. I would do workouts, and did my best to stay pretty consistent. I am typically one
to stay motivated on my own when it comes to exercising and personal health, but it was so
different without a team to do it with. Obviously, I couldn’t do as much as I did at
school either, not having a full gym, and only a few dumbbells to work with. It got to be a bit
boring, but as it got warmer outside, I started going to a field to practice field hockey- but
obviously I had to play it alone. My high school turf field was closed from March through
September. I had to drive an extra 15 minutes to be able play on a different field that was open.
�This did not stop me though, anything to get out of the house after being stuck in it for months
was okay by me.
By June, my boss called me back to work! I was so excited. I used to dread going to
work, and did not like being with all the kids. I work at a daycare and have done so since 10th
grade in high school. I always thought it was terrible. But, once I realized I could go back, I was
so happy to be able to get out of the house for even work and the interactions.
Being in quarantine in the summer was not as bad as the March-May period, because it
was warmer outside and just a better atmosphere in general. March, April, May, and the
beginning of June kind of really stunk. Once I got to work in June though, and the sun was out, I
was feeling much better. All I did was wake up, go to the basement to workout, came home, and
sat outside. I always thought “Oh I’ll be in shape for preseason, the gym will open soon!” But no, the gym never opened, and preseason never happened.
I was excited for the beginning of August, because my field hockey preseason would be
starting at my new school (college). Transferring was scary, and kind of weird during this time
but I was still excited to meet everyone. As the preseason date approached, we sadly found out
we’d have no season. Therefore, moving in was delayed and we would ultimately arrive on
campus with everyone else at the end of August. As the weeks went on my local gym never
opened either; Governor Cuomo hadn’t opened them until I left for school.
When I finally got to school, it was weird because everyone I met had a mask on -- how
would I know what all these new people really looked like? How would I remember everyone’s
name? My roommate introduced me to a bunch of people, and she was a returning sophomore,
but it was still very weird, and definitely not a normal feeling to me. I met the rest of the
sophomores on the field hockey team through my roommate though, and that helped make it
�easier to get to know and remember all these new girls. Socializing on weekends though, note –
it just doesn’t happen. It feels weird and not exactly like college and remains very different from
my freshman experience last year.
So far field hockey practices and lift-days are alright. We are grouped into small “pods”
of teammates and cannot scrimmage on a full field yet. During lifts we are all spaced out and can
only use certain weights assigned to us. Other than that, I am glad to be able to practice with a
team, even if we cannot play.
Overall, the Coronavirus Pandemic has been a very strange time, and everyone adapts
differently. I think without it though, I would not be the person I am today. I wouldn’t wish such
a difficult world event or situation to occur at any time-period of period, but if there is a bright
side, it did allow me and others that I am close with, to learn and grow from such a challenging
event. Even though it is weird, I think it can be helpful if we all do our best to relax, accept the
situation which we cannot control, and in the end all we can do is make the most out of it.
�
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October 8, 2020
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Springfield College
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Changes Experienced Through
COVID 19
Ariana Monarca
�Overview
The following photographs and topics displayed in this visual essay represent the crazy year that I’ve had. Due
to Covid, I’d say a lot of things changed in my life. Some things for the better and others not so much. My senior
year of Highschool didn’t turn out quite how I expected it be to. I missed out on my last track season with my
teammates as well as typically senior activities and trips. I both gained and lost friendships in a span of a few
months. I started a new chapter at Springfield college too. Even now, I’m still currently adapting to new changes.
Covid is still having an impact on my life, even months later, however I can’t change that. Filled with ups and
downs, it all feels like a roller coaster.. Sometimes it’s a lot to handle and process the changes that COVID has
thrown in my direction.
�Last Months of Highschool
My senior year of high school was different than expected. All
my senior trips and prom nights that I was looking forward to
since freshman year were canceled. Due to the fact that it was
just too unsafe to carry through with these activities, my senior
year felt like it went straight out the door. This photo was taken
with my group of senior friends back in October. Little did we
know that the end of our senior year would become so
unpredictable in the months to follow. I never knew that
officially my last day stepping foot into my high school would
have been in March. Unknowing that it would be my last day, I
never got to say a proper goodbye to my friends.
�Athletics on Pause
Last time I was able to compete was my indoor track season that
ended in February. We unfortunately got put on pause and weren’t
able to have one last outdoor track season. In this photo, I was with
my 4x800 relay team after breaking our school record for the first
time. For our outdoor track season, we had a goal to advance our
4x800 team to state opens but never had the opportunity to give it a
shot. Even coming to college, competition season was canceled. We
still train but I haven’t been able to compete representing Springfield
yet.
�Friendships
COVID also had a big impact on the relationships I formed
with those closest to me. Before quarantine, I was pretty
content with the people in my life. I had a group of friends that
I talked to all the time at school. After stepping foot out of
school in March, those friendships started drifting apart. I lost
friendships with people I thought would be in my life always
and it was difficult to handle. In the process of losing
friendships, I’ve also strengthened other friendships. My bond
with them has grown. We all continue to keep in touch even
though we're following our separate paths in college.
�Family Time
The one positive about COVID is that I got to spend more time with
my family. I’ve been able to stay home and enjoy family dinners
together, have bonfires, and watch movies more often. The situation
sucks but at least my family is helping me through it all. In this photo
taken in August, I went kayaking with my dad, aunt, and cousins. My
family tried to get out of the house a bit and do more fun outdoor
activities. We wanted to take our minds off COVID and get that
quality time together before I left for college.
�A Fresh Start at Springfield College
Coming to Springfield college, I wasn’t sure what to expect.
It was all so nerve wracking yet exciting since it was my first
time really getting away from home in months. It was finally
a time for me to have my own independence. I knew changes
were made to adapt to the COVID 19 guidelines. Wearing
masks at all times and remaining six feet apart was
something no one was used to doing. Online classes can get
pretty hectic too. I’m not used to learning in an online format
but I keep improving my skills on navigating the system
daily.
�
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Taylor Harris
Prof Delahanty
10/22/2020
COVID-19 Pandemic
This past year has been full of crazy, unexpected events due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
When the first case of corona came to the US, I wasn’t aware of how large of an impact it would
have on our country. Not knowing much about the virus, I never thought it would come
anywhere close to myself or the people I know but I was wrong. When corona first came to the
United States, many of us didn’t really think anything of it, until it was in our own state. During
the last couple of weeks of high school that were in person, it was rare to hear a conversation that
wasn’t about corona. The pandemic was the main topic of many conversations causing anxiety
and worry amongst so many. Not much information was given to any of us students and at the
time no one really knew anything about the virus or how to contain it. The more the cases rose,
the more people freaked out. Massachusetts was one of the first “hot spot” states causing schools
to shut down and almost all jobs switching to online.
With the virus spreading more, my school decided to shut down. One of my teachers
came in contact with a family member who tested positive for corona, and my whole school went
into panic mode. Kids were calling their parents to get dismissed because the staff weren’t giving
us updates on the incident with the teacher. The next day school was cancelled and everyone
believed that we would be back the next week. The next week came around and my school
�pushed it back to 2 weeks. Week after week our time off school continued to grow and soon
enough we were told that we weren’t going back to school. Reality hit everyone when we found
out we couldn’t go back to school because of how serious COVID was getting in our state. No
prom, no normal graduation, no senior trip, no awards night, and so many other missed events.
My school was not prepared to switch to online classes, so we had a break from school for
almost a month before they figured out the situation with classes and teaching online.I still ended
up having club volleyball practice after the fact until one night our coach told us it would be our
last practice for a while and maybe even for the rest of the season. My teammates and I couldn’t
believe the news and kept questioning our coaches about our season, but it was unknown what
the future would hold. At this point no one knew how to deal with the situation at hand. Stores,
restaurants, business, etc all shut down and at this point nothing felt real. Strict quarantine rules
and curfews were set in place for almost all residents in MA and we were forced to wear a mask
everywhere we went. Being a hot spot state, masks were required everywhere unlike the southern
states who had the option to wear one. Although rules were being followed, the number of
positive tests rose and the death rate continued to increase. The virus was untamable and
everyone believed it would get worse before it got better.
The governor of Boston kept pushing back quarantine week after week with no set date
as to when we were going to get back to normal. We lived day by day without any answers and
constantly stayed on our toes waiting for permission to leave quarantine. After a few months of
strict quarantine, the rules started to slowly lift. Stores started to slowly open with a certain
amount of customers shopping at once, and long lines waited outside for hours on end.
Restaurants opened to take out and you had to order through online services only.
�Just as we were making a positive turn by slowly coming out of quarantine and isolation,
another curve ball was thrown throughout the world. We were hit with the unwarranted death of
Breonna Taylor in her own home. This African American woman was sleeping in her home
when plain clothed police invaded her apartment without a warning believing there was a
suspect, but the suspect had already been apprehended and it wasn’t the correct building. This
ignited the start up of the Black Lives Matters Movement with protests and petitions throughout
social media and news outlets across the country. Not long after this incident another instance of
police brutality took place. An African American man, George Floyd, was strangled to death in
police custody which was caught on video and spread worldwide. This sparked many peaceful
protests and cities across the country, some which resulted in violence on both sides of the
protesters and authorities. It got to a point where, even in peaceful protests, authorities would
take extreme measures against peaceful protesters by tear gassing crowds and shooting rubber
bullets. Not only did this cause a bigger rift between authorities and people of color, but it
sparked the BLM movement which became world wide. The articles and visuals shared on social
media were eye opening to me. Although I am a person of color in a predominantly white town,
my brothers and I never experienced anything like what we were seeing on the news. Growing
up my mom would always remind my brothers to stay cautious, “act appropriately” and stay safe
when going out especially at night time. My brothers, who are tall black males, like listening to
loud music while driving and occasionally wear durags to protect their hair, which is a part of
black culture. To police and society this is a stereotypical representation of a black man. Little do
they know, they are smart respectful men who have done so much for their community and
school. Being the younger sister of my three brothers, I was worried for their safety after seeing
�so many instances where black males were killed for the slightest issue. My mom, brothers and I
attended a few protests to stand up for minorities who are being oppressed in the criminal justice
system. This was a big part of my quarantine and taught me so much about the world we live in
today.
In all 2020 has been a crazy year with corona and the Black Lives Matter Movement. All
the ups and downs this year has taught me a lot about myself and the insane world that we live in
today. I never thought I would experience living through a pandemic, I would’ve never thought
I’d experience half of what I’ve been through this year.
�
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Brandon Dang
SCSM 101-11
Professor Delahanty
10/20/20
My Covid-19 Experience
I was in my second semester of my senior year of Enfield Highschool when they sent us home
for online class due to a national pandemic outbreak. I did not hate it, but I most definitely did not like it
either. The workload for my classes seemed to have doubled and it was hard to communicate since we
did not use zoom or calls. We simply did the work and sent it in. I remember all my friends looking
forward to a proper graduation and their sports, then being saddened by the fact that neither was
possible with the pandemic. I am personally, someone who enjoys time to themselves and keeps away
from crowds. Only exceptions are when my close friends invite me for an activity, since its usually only
6-7 people. Other than that, I do not mind being at home, I have a pc I built at home that I use to speak
and game with my friends online and do work. I honestly did not really care for the sentimental things
of high school such as a “proper” graduation or breathtaking prom, but I can tell many around me were
very frustrated and disappointed. I understood their feelings and it made me feel miserable since
everyone was so negative, and it just cemented the gloomy vibe of Covid. So, everyone basically wanted
2020 over with, but I did not mind the outbreak in the beginning, until the sinking feeling of boredom
annoyed me to the end. I could be riding on the quad with Joel or play tennis with my partner if it were
not for the pandemic. When graduation arrived, it felt anticlimactic, my four years of high school comes
to an end in a few seconds. I got my diploma, my pictures and drove home. There was a lot of parties
my family had despite the limit that was placed... We are a Vietnamese family, and my grandparents
specifically, like to have “get togethers” as often as they can. Obviously due to the pandemic some will
not come, and I tend to stay home as well. I was very scared for my grandparents since they were both
healthily active for their age, my grandfather plays tennis nearly every day and my grandmother loves to
�work. I would occasionally call them to check up on how they are doing, and I would never dare to miss
a call from them. As I got ready for college, there was an immense pressure to not lose my scholarship
and financial aid. I joined as an online student and my first two weeks were very difficult. I mixed up my
two scheduled classes and switched my major. Luckily thanks to SC’s kind staff, I managed to get back
on track. I still have a few of my close friends who come and hang out, while three went off to college in
Rhode Island whom I still play online games with. Now I wake up to a daily routine and I feel like its
unhealthy. I feel less motivated and robotic. I wake up to seven different alarms, take a shower and
join class. I finish class, do homework, eat, shower, sleep, and repeat. The Covid-19 pandemic took
away my liberty to walk around in public, enjoy time with friends, and uphold family traditions. I took
many things for granted, such as eating out with family, or having fun with my cousins. It is simply
regrettable.
�
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I still remember when Covid-19 began to hit the United States. My international relations
class had been discussing the possible ramifications of a global pandemic and what it would look
like in the US, blind to the fact that it would only be a matter of time before we too were
quarantined. When cases began to pop up across the country, I refused to believe that my small
town of Suffield Connecticut would ever be in danger from the virus, but I was mistaken.
Surrounding towns began to see surges in cases, especially among the older demographic.
Nursery homes and retirement centers were the first to feel the impact of the virus, next schools,
then everywhere seemed to have cases. The deaths of several turned to the deaths of hundreds
across the state and before I could fully understand what was happening, my life would be put on
hold.
It was Thursday when the news first broke that Connecticut would be looking to
implement a quarantine. I tried to consider what would change in my daily life. The end of my
senior season with my swim team was fast approaching. My team had trained the whole week
and was preparing for the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) states meet.
Three months of training every day for two hours had been building to this point, but we would
never be able to compete one last time. Hearing that CIAC was shutting down all athletic events
indefinitely seemed like a fantasy to me. I didn’t want to believe that my 4 year tenure with my
team would end like this. My senior swim season, the season that should’ve been the most
memorable in my early career was tarnished.
Anger was the first emotion that I experienced. I was frustrated that the students
participating in these events didn’t have any say in the decision to close down athletics, upset
that CIAC couldn’t have let the last two weeks of the season play out and deal with Covid-19
afterward. At one point, several petitions were created in hopes of sending a message to the
�director of CIAC that we wanted to compete, us seniors needed closure. Despite thousands of
signatures on these petitions, the ruling was definite. All that was left to me now were the classes
I shared and enjoyed with my friends.
Not a week went by before the announcement was made school would be closing down
until Spring break with a possibility of complete online education being implemented for the rest
of the year. I had only just come to terms with not racing one last time, but now I was being told
I may not see hundreds of people I had spent the last eleven years of my life around ever again.
We were left with one week to enjoy a normal life before saying goodbye. My friends and I
agreed to stay in contact through text, facetime, Snapchat, whatever necessary to remain sane
during our quarantine, but nothing could combat the feeling of isolation that was soon to come.
March 20th was the beginning of quarantine for our community and most of Connecticut.
The governor had enacted several guidelines and regulations to ensure as little exposure from the
public was necessary. Stores reduced their hours or closed down, gyms closed, schools closed
their facilities, masks were required when indoors, etc. This created a massive change in how my
family and myself conducted our daily lives. We had to conserve what we could to limit our trips
to public places like grocery stores. We had to be cognizant of how much we were consuming
because the masses were stockpiling things like toilet paper and hand sanitizer. Personally,
altered my health habits because gyms and many facilities were closed. I began to run and track
calories to hold off the quarantine fifteen so many were seeing. My place of employment had to
change how we did business. These changes become permanent from the end of March to the
beginning of June for our little community.
The end of May came with an email from my board of education saying graduation
would take place on June 6th. It would not be the graduation ceremony I wanted, but it would
�suffice given the circumstances. The parking lot would be transformed so that each family could
have a spot and park their car. Each student would individually walk up to the front stand and
receive their diploma. Receiving my diploma lifted a weight off my shoulders. It felt like I didn’t
have to think about being a senior anymore, I could just look towards the future rather than what
I missed in the past few months.
Shortly after graduating the state coincidentally began to reopen businesses with social
distancing and mask-wearing still in place. This allowed my friends and family to finally step
outside and enjoy each other’s company. For the remainder of the summer, I continued my
healthy living and began to partake in some instances of normal living. I was able to see my
close friends several times and take many, many hikes through nature. Life seemed to be
somewhat normal for some time.
With summer coming to a close and the beginning of college fast approaching, the
normalcy of life began to dissipate once more. Soon I would have to re-enter the habit of wearing
a mask almost everywhere, online classes, and limited time with friends. While it seems like a
drastic change from where we were just months ago, it all is beginning to feel like a new normal.
It’s now become a strange sight to see someone without a mask or not socially distancing
themselves from others. Now, I’m waiting to see if this becomes a semi-permanent normal, or
just how life will be for the next few months.
�
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Joseph Reitmeyer (000836162)
Ian Delahanty
College Seminar
10/23/2020
My Experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic
I remember some time in early march of 2020 I was in my highschool library i was
scrolling through instagram, I came across a random post that read “BREAKING: A breakout of
a virus by the name of COVID-19 or “corona” virus is rapidly spreading through wu-han china”.
When I read this i thought nothing of it, I thought so what? It's a small virus across the world. A
few weeks later I was sitting in my house completely separated from the life I was living just a
month ago. When the lock down first started I was ecstatic, my last year of highschool and i
didnt even have to do school work to finish it out. I already wanted to be home all day anyway
so how hard would it be to stay home for a month or two? It was over this time I fully realized the
scope of the situation I had entered. My experience with the COVID-19 pandemic has been an
ever evolving puzzle of new challenges that I along with everyone around me has had to figure
out to navigate.
The moment my mom told me that school had been canceled for the foreseeable future i
could not have been happier. I didn't necessarily hate school, but it being the back half of my
senior year I really felt like I was waiting out the last few months anyways. After the first couple
of days of the lock down I was slowly learning the scope of this virus. I was seeing news reports
of increased cases by thousands everyday. I started to realize the things I had given up to keep
ma and my family members safe. Things like hanging out with friends, all the senior year
activities like the class trip and graduation were the last thought in anyone's mind. The first few
weeks of lockdown are really hard to remember because everyday was exactly the same as the
day before. I would wake up mid-day and try to find anything to do around the house that
usually consisted of finding something to eat, playing video games with my friends and sleeping.
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This lifestyle quickly became extremely tedious and extremely boring and i was extremely lucky
that I was one of the few people nationwide that was still working a job. There is not much more
I can really say about the first few months of the lock down, it was just a repetitive process of
waking up and waiting inside my house for any information about what we were to do next.
The unique part of my experience with lockdown is that I worked in a grocery store
through the lock down. For the first month or two while I stuck at home while everything was
closed and still trying to figure out the only business open were the essential business and this
included the local grocery store i worked at. Before the pandemic I absolutely hated the tedious
nature of my cashiers job but it was good highschool money and something to put on my
resume so I reluctantly stuck with it through my senior year of highschool. I quickly learned that I
was extremely lucky to have this job. Firstly I was one of the few people still actively working a
job and making an income, I felt bad because I didn't necessarily need this job, I didn't have
anyone relying on me or a family to provide for but since the store couldn't train any new
employees during the pandemic I stayed because it was good money and the store needed all
the help it could get. The store offered increased hourly wages for working during the pandemic
as an incentive for employees to keep working, but after those first few weeks of lockdown I
didn't need the extra pay, I was just happy to have a reason to leave my house. I believe that
working this job helped me deal with the stress of the lockdown because it helped me take my
mind off the current world epidemic. Some immediate changes I noticed in the store were that
everyone had to wear masks and gloves at all times, our shifts increased to six hours and we
had to count the number of people that entered the store because we had a maximum capacity.
I was never nervous about contracting COVID, i lived in an area with very low case numbers
and my brother was and still is an EMT so he was also working through the lockdown so I
figured if i get it, I get it. The virus generally didn't seem to do too much to people of my age.
The most recent part of my COVID experience has been trying to attend my first year of
college both in person and online. I am at this moment a student at Springfield College and
�3
while I commend the effort by the school to give the most normal version of a freshman year
possible it's definitely been a unique experience. Move in day was spaced out into three days
and the tricky part of this part of move in day was that you had to pack for college like you could
be sent home by next week. The threat of an outbreak always looms around campus, meaning
that we would all be sent home immediately to finish the semester virtually. Exactly half of my
classes are in person and online. Personally I find that online classes suck, it's hard to stare at a
computer screen in a zoom meeting for an hour but like all other situations in this pandemic we
have no choice but to continue to wait to get back to the new normal. The in person classes also
suffer, teachers are forced to use online content to teach their classes. They no longer have
access to field trips, outside the classroom examples, and even in some classes paper handout
to rely on. For example, I'm taking an Event Management class currently and one of the
assignments is to put on and host an event. My group has had to postpone and cancel our
event because of virus concerts. This makes it harder to really get that critical hands on
experience that this usually has to offer. My overall college experiences with the social
distancing rules and regulations hasn't been necessarily bad, just another new situation that
staff and students have to figure out to the best of their ability.
The puzzle of the ever evolving “new normal’ is and will continue to be challenging to
navigate and work through. Even though I think the worst of it is behind us, that being the
complete lockdown of the country, I believe that it will be years before what we consider normal
will come back. This had definitely been a experience that few generations ever ever have to go
through and i can say while it hasn't been pleasurable it is interesting to think about my place in
the history of the worldwide epidemic.
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Nicole Pino
Professor Delahanty
Springfield College Seminar
21 October 2020
A School Year of Disappointments
Senior year. The last stretch before really being considered an adult. I was beyond
excited. We were finally allowed to eat outside during lunch, come in late if we had a study, got
the good parking spots up front, we could even have coffee which was very important on the
days that dragged on. I was most excited for friday night football games under the lights,
standing on the sidelines with the rest of my team and winning the homecoming game. But that
didn’t exactly happen. EEE took away the lights from us and almost took the whole season with
it. Luckily we played through. We didn’t know it yet but those days were the very start of the
curse of 2020.
In December, word of the so-called “Coronavirus” started spreading through the media. I
can remember seeing a bunch of different memes about it but not thinking anything of it
because it was so far away from us all the way in China. Then by the end of January things
started getting serious. January 20th, ten days before my 18th birthday, the first Covid case in
the U.S. was reported. I was terrified. All the jokes we made about how it could never get here
came back to haunt us. This was really happening. We managed to survive February in my
town. All was going well up until the middle of March when a guy from the high school a town
over was confirmed of having it. It was the week before March Madness Spirit Week which was
HUGE at my high school. It was also the week of my final football banquet and the beginning of
practices for the lacrosse team. On March 13th my world stopped dead in its tracks. At the end
of that day there was an announcement and I remember it clear as day, “The high school will be
�closing down for two weeks for safety reasons. All students should bring home books and
supplies necessary to complete homework for said time.” We were so excited because we got
an extra two weeks off from school and when we came back, there’d be one week of class and
then April Vacation. However that turned out not to be the case. Two weeks turned into three,
then four, and then the whole rest of the year.
That announcement was just one of things that caused my world to crumble. Right after
school ended, I was in the band room for the weekly Tri-M Music Honors Society meeting and I
got a text from my dad; “Call me - we need to talk.” I don’t know about anyone else’s dad but
when I get texts like those it's never a good thing, especially when it's two o’clock in the
afternoon and I know he’s still at work. I left my meeting early because I knew this had to be
important. For a little background, my parents are divorced and have been since the beginning
of my freshman year of high school so I’d only get to see him once every other weekend. I,
having always been my dad’s little girl, took it really hard at first and still struggle with it to this
day because we’ve always been so close. At the time he asked me to call him, he was living in
my grandmother’s house and was taking care of her because she got knee surgery and couldn’t
walk around the house yet and had just beaten cancer a few years prior. When he answered the
phone, I could tell he was already choked up. He tells me that because of the Coronavirus
shutting down schools and because Mimi’s immune system was still very weak, I couldn’t come
over to see her which also meant I couldn’t see him either for at least a month. The news hit me
like a bus. I started tearing up immediately because that day I was supposed to see the both of
them. It was hard having the one thing you were looking forward to all day be the thing that got
ripped away from you in an instant. I got off of the phone and it took everything in me not to cry.
I felt like the world stopped and everyone was looking at me. There was so much that happened
within an hour and I couldn’t control it and it was killing me. I just needed a hug.
Then quarantine happened and my mental health took the biggest hit. I became
extremely unmotivated and didn’t want to do anything. I holed myself up in my room and didn't
�do anything except my online classes/homework, sleeping, eating, and watching Netflix. My
body started to feel so weak because I would barely move from my bed. I went from dancing at
least two hours everyday of the week and weekend in the studio to only an hour every other day
of the week. Dancing became my outlet for my emotions. On Wednesdays we’d have a
combination class where my teacher would teach 2 8-counts of a combo and let us improvise
for the rest of the song. The songs would always be in the contemporary style so every week it
was like I got to write down my feelings on a page except it was my body writing words on the
walls of my bedroom. Dancing was one of the things I missed the most. The girls on my team
are some of the closest friends I’ve had and it took a huge toll on all of us when we found out we
weren’t going to have a final competition season. I didn’t hang out with my friends, although I
really wanted to, because I wanted to see my dad and grandmother. It was one of the only two
things keeping me somewhat focussed on school. The other was I knew if I failed any of my
classes I wouldn’t get to graduate.
Fast forward a few months through quarantine, online schooling, and LOTS of Netflix, it
was almost June which meant I finally got to graduate. I had been waiting for this day for four
years. Our school was very hesitant about letting us have a ceremony because there were 169
kids in my class. The administration settled on a drive-by graduation where we’d drive up to the
front of the school, take our diploma, walk to the center of the small stage, switch our tassel,
take a picture, and leave. I was somewhat thankful that we didn’t have to sit in the sun for hours
like we would have if it was completely normal but it wasn’t great either. I was just happy it was
over and I was free of the burden that was high school and all the drama that went with it;
especially during quarantine. Going through what I did id something that I wouldn’t even wish on
my worst enemies.
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The Impact of Isolation
During the height of quarantine I was left alone, anxious, and unproductive. My parents being
separated, I rarely spent time with them because my father lived in the city and my mom was
then working at the hospital everyday. It was a time when there was no way we could see our
friends and elders, the people with whom I’d spend a majority of my days with. I had never
experienced such a state of loneliness and boredom. It was a very hard time for me in terms of
adjustment
�but once regulations started to lift, I had one of the best summers of my entire life.
�My mother being a nurse during the pandemic, she was exposed daily to the virus and the
harsh reality of how dangerous it was. When she came home after long hours, not once did she
complain about being tired but instead greeted me with love and hopeful words. I was more
impacted by the fact that she wasn’t home often over the fear of her and I getting sick because
at the time I still couldn’t understand how deadly covid was. Before quarantine, I would go from
school to practice so we always seemed to come home at the same time everyday but because
we were no longer allowed to do those things, I was home alone for most of the days.
Luckily quarantine came after the end of my senior year volleyball season and I was able to
have the last high school season of my favorite sport. My club season was unfortunately
cancelled before we could go to nationals and I had to lose some recruitment opportunities.
Going from doing what I loved daily to it being ripped away so unexpectedly, I was impacted in
a way that left me unable to find a positive in this situation. I remember being so regretful that I
didn’t do more or thank my coaches in person as much as they deserved.
�Unable to see all my friends for months, I was consumed with thoughts of how routinely I
treated seeing the people I loved everyday. I seemed to dwell on every encounter I had with my
friends the last time I was around them and was unsatisfied with almost every one after
�thinking of what exactly we said to each other. Of course we all stayed in contact through
technology but that could never match hearing and being so closely around them.
�Communicating with my friends and teachers through a computer screen for my last year of
high school was something I could’ve never expected. Having ADHD, this negatively affected my
grades and made it very hard to retain and understand the information we were being taught
because of all the distractions at home. I thought of all the absences I had that September
through February and couldn’t believe how much I took school for granted.
��On a positive note, by the summer my town had many of the regulations lifted and my friends
and I could do some of the things we missed dearly. We had all our prom, senior plans,
graduation, etc. taken away only for them to be given back to us over the summer by our
amazing school system. We had a masked graduation that allowed us to walk out in front of our
families, the ability to have graduation parties with under 50 people, and a socially distanced
senior picnic that allowed us to see our teachers one last time before going off to school.
Quarantine taught me the difficulties that came with isolation but the happiness that came with
finally feeling free. I learned and will remember forever that better days always follow the bad
ones.
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Joyce 1
Reilly Joyce
SCSM, Delahanty
22 October 2020
My Life With Covid
On March 11th of 2020, my high school announced that there was going to be one week
off of school due to the hype surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic. On that day, I recorded a
video of myself explaining my feelings about the situation. I explained that I was not concerned
and that I thought it would all blow over within the week and everything would go back to
normal. As days went by, I continued to discredit the severity of the situation. Eventually my
hopes of a quick turn diminished and the reality of the situation set in. The next few months of
my life were going to be like no other I had ever experienced.
It was officially my last day of highschool. I didn’t want to be in that place ever, but that
day I just couldn’t believe that I didn’t have the decision to come back on Monday. I had to start
an online class which for me, wasn’t all that bad. The final project every senior has to do, I
didn't. Every assignment that they said was going to be graded, I didn’t do. My highschool only
took the grades of my first three quarters of the year so I was very nonchalant towards school
when we started remote learning. In my highschool career it wasnt that I liked school, however I
liked being there. Seeing my friends and messing around all day was something that I loved and
when I left school it was the start of me missing out on things because of this absurd pandemic. I
realized that the kids who I saw in school but didn’t usually hangout with, I would probably
never see again.Thoughts like these plagued my brain over the coming months and this was the
first of many I would have to overcome. No more school also meant no prom, no graduation and
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most importantly for me no senior season of high school baseball. Instead, I would be sitting in
my mom’s basement eating Cool Ranch Doritos and binge watching the Netflix Original show,
Outer Banks.
Quarantine. The act of isolating yourself from society in order to prevent the spread of a
disease. Something that became a regular thing for the inhabitants of planet Earth in the year
2020. Everybody and their mother was hunkered down in their house, leaving only for essential
activities such as grocery shopping for months on end. Non-essential activities were monitored
and shut down. One thing I will never forget was when me and a few of my friends began to start
playing pickup basketball at a local outdoor court. Eventually we were reported to the police and
kicked off the court as well as being threatened with fines and detainment if we did not comply
with the officers. We were stuck. Even something as seemingly harmless as playing 3v3
basketball was almost considered criminal. All there was left to do was go back to our houses
and drown ourselves in our Xbox’s and Iphones. This kind of containment also caused lots of
stress on my family. Four college aged men, along with 2 parents in the process of a divorce and
a preadolescent, annoying 12 year old, all trapped under one roof. 2020 was also the first year in
my entire life that we did not travel to my Grandparents house or go to church for Easter
festivities. It was chaos and everyone drove everyone insane.
To make every and all matters worse, face masks became a requirement any time one was
to leave their house. Not only are the masks uncomfortable but there is extreme question on how
worth it, it even is to wear them. Sometimes, you would forget to grab a mask before leaving the
house and not realize until you arrive at your destination. Next thing you know, you are walking
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around the local walmart with a dirty pair of sweatpants that you found in the trunk of your car
tied around your head. When establishments and activities finally did start to open back up to the
public, the requirement of masks made it difficult to breathe. My biggest struggle with the masks
was during my high level soccer practices. As a college level athlete, I participated in high
intensity and cardiovascularly strenuous activities. My abilities were limited considerably due to
the masks despite my relatively strong conditioning.
When I departed for college at the end of the summer, I was expecting for things to get
better but I was met with a rude awakening. It may even be worse. I am now required to wear a
mask on my way to the bathroom, while doing my laundry, while attending classes and just
about any time that I am not in my 10x15 foot dorm room. I have also racked up 150$ worth of
Covid-19 related fines and multiple reflection and apology papers since my arrival to the
Campus of Springfield College. I also find myself doing some sort of assignment related to
Covid-19 at a rate of what seems like every day. This document is proof of that. As mentioned
earlier, I am an athlete at college but you might not even be able to tell due to the fact that
practice gets cancelled every other week due to the most recent outbreak of active cases on
campus. The college experience has been completely altered due to the Covid-19 Virus.
It is now October and my original hopes of the virus scare blowing over quickly have
completely and utterly diminished. I have no idea what the future holds in terms of the virus and
at this current point in time but I am very unhopeful. I am yet to contract the virus but it has still
affected almost every aspect of my life including my mental,social, and physical health as well
as my family life, my religion, my personal life, my comfort and much more.
�
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McDevitt 1
How Coronavirus and Quarantine Impacted My Life
Eight months and counting; Coronavirus has effected my life for eight full months now. I
would’ve never thought I would go through something quite like this in my lifetime. Sure, I
learned about the “Black Death” and the “Spanish Flu”, but they seemed so distant, and seemed
so improbable to happen again. Little did I know that mid-March would provide me with a
chance to live through it, a global pandemic. The Coronavirus took a lot from me. My senior
year of high school was cut short, time with friends had been lost, and it is even effecting my
early college life right now. It’s been quite a shift to get used to the “new normal”, as its called
nowadays. Wearing protective masks that go over both the mouth and nose, and being six feet
apart at the minimum has been quite the hassle in some situations. People aren’t supposed to be
cooped up by themselves for weeks and months on end. I know for me, being a socially reliant
person, it was very hard to stay inside and not be able to see my friends.
When the coronavirus started to become a big problem in mid to late March, school had
let the students know it was going to shut down for two weeks. I found this out when I was just
getting off the field from baseball practice that Friday. I remember just thinking to myself “it’ll
just be a two week vacation and we will be back in school and back to playing baseball”. Little
did I know that this “two-week vacation” would turn into something greater. Those two weeks
went by and school had let us know that they would give it another week to see if coronavirus
would get better. That was the last thing I would hear from the school regarding positive news,
everything from then on just went downhill.
Me, being a senior at the time, had many questions. I wanted to know if I was going to
be able to play my last high school baseball season, or if I was going to have prom or graduation.
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Of course the school would dodge these questions and leave us seniors in the dark. The rest of
my senior year was filled with sitting in my room, taking classes that I didn’t have to try in
because the school said they “didn’t count towards my final transcript”. I felt like I was pinned
to that room. Sure I had my family, but you can only take so much of your family before they
start to get on your nerves. I love them dearly, but quarantine was annoying to say the least. It
wasn’t all bad being in quarantine though. I may have said earlier that my family started to get on
my nerves, but the quarantine due to coronavirus definitely helped relations with my siblings and
parents. Before the coronavirus, I was always super busy and out of the house. Whether it be for
sports, friends, or training in other states, I was never home with my family. When the
coronavirus happened, and a mandatory quarantine was issued to my state of Pennsylvania, it
was a blessing in disguise. The quarantine allowed me to spend more time with my family
without any distractions. I definitely am appreciative of how much more I’ve gotten to learn
about my siblings, and see a closer connection between me and the three of them. I spent more
time with my brother, and that usually doesn’t happen because we are polar opposites of each
other. We got to bond over things he likes to do, and I owe that all to the quarantine to get me to
get out of my comfort zone and do things with my siblings I wouldn’t have done in the past.
Another thing that coronavirus effects is my college life. Since I am playing football at
Springfield College, I was supposed to come earlier than all the rest of the students that weren’t
involved with a fall sport. Coronavirus kept on pushing that date back to when I got up to
Springfield. This made me doubt that I would have camp at all for football, and I didn’t. I had to
come up with all the other students, and got my season taken away from me. Again, this was
another blessing in disguise, though. With the postponement of the season, I was given the
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opportunity to keep up with my classes, and stay on top of my grades better than if I had a
season. It also allowed me to focus on making friends up here at the college too. If I had football,
and if coronavirus wasn’t a thing, I would be too tired to get out there and be social. I would
probably be in bed resting up for another practice, or something of that nature. Coronavirus has
been effecting the way I live up here at Springfield, though. All of my classes are online, and the
way I learn is in person, so it has been a little bit of a struggle to find that motivation. Masks
have to be worn at all times, and we can’t even have more than a few people at a time in the
common room of our dorms, or I, and the people in the room, would get written up for not
following “Covid Guidelines”. The first semester of my college experience hasn’t been all that I
was hoping for, but I am managing in this world of the “new normal”. I still am making friends
just fine, and having as much fun as I would’ve under normal circumstances. It’s unfortunate, but
this is how diamonds are built, through pressure. If I keep my nose to the grindstone, and get out
of this situation, the coronaviruses, I will be better for it. I will be better as a person, and I won’t
take things for granted like I may have in the past before the pandemic.
Coronavirus definitely is as serious today as it was in mid March, but I am a lot better
now then I was. I have accepted the fact that the virus would toy with my everyday life, and I
would just have to leave it like that. I can only control what I can control, and I can’t control the
viruses next move, so why try and worry about that? If I keep doing my part, like socially
distancing and wearing a mask, I will get through this, and the world will too one day. The virus
taught me to never take a moment and things for granted, because you don’t know what the next
day has in store. I had baseball to look forward to in march, but that was taken away. I had
graduation and prom to look forward to, and they were taken away. Nothing is a guarantee, and I
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thank the virus for helping me realize that. May I live everyday like its my last, no matter the
circumstances I have to live in. Make everyday count, and thats what these last eight months
have taught me.
�
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SCSM 101-11: SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE SEMINAR CLASS (Fall 2020)
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This classes thematic focus for the semester was: The Truth about Race in America.
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How Coronavirus and Quarantine Impacted My Life
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Mike McDevitt
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October 23, 2020
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Campus Life
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Home Life
Student Athletes
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A Voice From 2020
How can I begin to characterize an event in our lives that is so far from being
over? Being in the middle of a pandemic is unlike any experience I have ever had. The
virus has no sympathy. It does not pick and choose who it affects but instead invades
any person that it can reach. This has resulted in numerous months of isolation and
loneliness for a lot of people. Yes, thanks to technology we can still communicate with
friends and family through a screen, but this is no substitute for face-to-face interaction;
something that we previously took for granted. Schools began to close in the middle of
March and since then there have been multiple waves of the virus. Now it is December
and another major wave has hit the country, but despite this, the administration of a
vaccine has started, and the storm cloud that has cast a gloom over the entire world for
the past year seems to slowly be lifting.
Covid-19 has caused so many aspects of my life to be uprooted. The end of my
senior year in high school was basically canceled: no prom, no spring track season, and
a graduation ceremony with only 20 out of the 400 students in my graduating class. I
already felt like I was living in a dystopian society, but little did I know that this was the
tip of the iceberg in terms of normal aspects in my life that would be taken from me.
Every kid dreams of going to college, to finally live on their own with no parental
guidance. All of my ideas of what I imagined my college experience to be like were
immediately thrown out the window. Masks had to be worn everywhere besides my own
dorm room. Walking around campus I could not make out the faces behind the masks.
In my double dorm room, besides me and my roommate, only two others could be in
there at a time. My soccer season was modified to the extent that we played zero
�games and practiced only three days a week. School did not feel like school. I rolled out
of bed for my 8 am class at 7:59 am only to go sit at my desk, flip my laptop open, and
click on a link to a Zoom meeting, still in my pajamas and wrapped in a warm blanket.
Even that was more than I had to do. I could have just logged into Zoom from my bed,
but knowing myself I would not have been able to focus on school and might have even
drifted off to sleep during a class if I did that.
Despite all of these changes that no one expects to have to endure when going
to college for the first time, I was still able to make new friends, socialize safely on the
weekends, learn a lot, and play the sport I love. This all ended abruptly though when at
the end of October, all members of Gulick Hall, where I lived, were quarantined and two
days later all classes went remote. Students were given the option to stay on campus or
to go home until the start of the spring semester. Most everyone chose to go home, as
did I. This sudden change caused my final days of living at school for the fall semester
to be filled with stress. On top of the normal anxiousness that I was already feeling, my
roommate found out that she was in close contact with someone that had tested
positive. This made me wonder if I should go home or not. My mind was swirling with
questions. Should I go home and risk bringing the virus to my family? Should I stay and
be quarantined for two weeks in Gulick without my friends as they were moving back
home? My parents made the decision for me: I was coming home. I got a Covid test on
the morning of the day I moved out. I had to move every last thing out of my dorm room
by myself as my parents were not allowed to enter the building. On my ride home I wore
a mask as I had spent the last 48 hours in my ten-foot by ten-foot dorm room with a
potentially infected person.
�At home, I immediately quarantined myself in my room, not knowing if my
exposure to the virus had caused me to become infected. I received my test results the
next day and I was negative, but my roommate also found out that she was positive that
same day. The tricky thing about Covid is that even though I tested negative, the health
center told me that a positive test result could still be produced up to fourteen days after
I was last exposed. For the next two weeks, I lived in my bedroom, leaving only to walk
the five steps out my door and into the bathroom, or to go for runs around my
neighborhood. My parents brought food up to me on a tray and I would even eat with
my door open so I would feel like I was at least partly eating with my family. I tried to
keep myself occupied so I would not think about the high possibility that I was infected,
but it was difficult not to let my mind wander. After one week of quarantine, I tested
negative again. I loosened my restrictions a little to allow myself to go into the kitchen to
make my own food but was still wearing a mask in my own home. On the last day of my
two-week quarantine, I went to get tested for the third and final time. This was the
moment of truth. The next morning I woke up to a negative test result. I was lucky. I feel
like I escaped not only Covid but the long-term effects from it that no one knows about
yet.
I feel grateful that I was able to learn about Covid-19 while I was living through it.
This class has taught me so much about infectious diseases. I was able to gain a better
understanding of the microscopic world around me. What I have learned is something
that I will be thinking about years from now, even in the absence of Covid. A major
takeaway from this class for me is how nations across the globe can be better prepared
and equipped to take on a virus, like the coronavirus, before it manifests itself in the
�human population. In six years I will be graduated from the physician assistant program
here at Springfield College. Who knows, maybe I will travel to underdeveloped nations
and teach fellow medical professionals how to prepare for pandemics before they
emerge, and it will all be thanks to this class.
�
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An honors colloquium class that focused on infectious disease in general and COVID-19 specifically. Sections of the class were held in both the Fall of 2020 and Spring of 2021.
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A Voice From 2020
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This document includes my own characterization of the pandemic, my personal experiences of living through Covid-19, and my takeaways from this class.
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Taylor Gibson
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December 2020
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Years down the road, when Covid-19 is not a prevalent virus anymore, future students at Springfield College will be able to read this piece and learn about what it was like to live during a pandemic.
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Springfield College
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Springfield College Seminar 2H
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Pandemic Education Spring 2020
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High School Graduation. During the Spring of 2020, the pandemic affected the world in a magnitude of ways most of which were unforeseen. The entire world, and this country specifically, have been faced with problems in various aspects of running successful and routine communities. One of which includes the education of students ranging from pre-k all the way to graduate students. Most people would say that the year 2020 has been highlighted and anticipated for some time now in hopes that it would be some type of 'golden year'; some would even go as far as to compare the upcoming year to the roaring 20's in the 1900's. So, no one could have ever predicted or prepared for what actually came of the year 2020. I chose this picture from my high school graduation from this past June because I feel like it is a good representation of how 2020 has shaped not only the students of the pandemic but everyone else alongside. It was definitely a struggle at first and still is, but with time people have begun to adjust to this new way of life. The pandemic has caused people to start thinking in a new way. In this picture I was just happy to have some type of graduation at all. I felt lucky to be able to get this one thing that has normally been seen as a regular tradition for centuries. While, of course, it was not the traditional ceremony it was better than not having one at all. In the end, I believe the ways in which the pandemic has challenged people everywhere in the course of their learning, careers, and more is going to make for better prepared individuals as we go forward and therefore create a stronger country and nation.
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June 26, 2020
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Springfield College
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Gabriella Scott
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Springfield College Seminar 2H
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Spring 2020 Pandemic Education Photo
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This is an image of myself during my online school period this past spring preparing for the AP Biology Exam. Every student in my AP Biology class submitted a photo (this was mine) that my teacher later made into a video to help students feel connected with each other during online learning.
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Amber Miracle
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April 25, 2020
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I chose to contribute this item because I think it is important to remind people that even though COVID has made social distancing part of our lives it is still possible to support others and to feel connected with your friends, family, classmates, teachers, etc.
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Springfield College
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Amber Miracle
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Springfield College Seminar 2H
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Nature Mandala
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Mandala created from flowers and other things found in nature.
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Julia Florek
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April 27, 2020
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There is no such thing as being a "traditional student" during a pandemic. I thought that sharing this image shows how much things changed and how we needed to adapt to continue to learn and grow as art students. This mandala was created as an alternative for an art class. It was difficult to continue to do art as a class when not everyone had what they needed. Finding things in nature was the best way everyone could complete the assignment because everyone had access to it.
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Julia Florek
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Springfield College Seminar 2H
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Distractions and Chaos
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Natalie Calo's Cat, Kiki. Doing homework in a chaotic territory that is shadowed by a furry friend. Taken May 11, 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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Natalie Calo
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May 11, 2020
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Though this photo may seem simple and cute, the picture holds a deeper meaning. It shows that at home, we are exposed to a different space in which a stable work ethic is hard to achieve. Many homes are filled with love, life, and fun but when we chose or are forced to work in this environment, we are faced with the distractions that once brought us joy. This picture is a prime and personal example for what working at home meant to me. I was surrounded by things that brought me joy and fun when I needed to stay serious. With those who have pets, doing work in an environment that was accompanied by a furry friend who had a mind of their own was risky. At any moment they could distract you and take your mind away from work. It could turn from a neat desk to a chaotic clutter in a blink of an eye. This is what working during the pandemic looked like for me: Natalie Calo.
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Springfield College
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Natalie Calo
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Springfield College Seminar 2H
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This collection contains items that were created by students in the Fall 2020 SSCSM 101-2H Springfield College Seminar course.
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Fall 2020
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Physics During a Pandemic
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This is just an example of the kind of assignments I was working on while in quarantine at the end of last school year. This is diagram I had to make for my physics class. We watched a video of a "flame tube", then had to draw a diagram in which we explained what was occurring in the video. Afterwards, we got a chance to look at our classmates diagrams, so we could revise our own.
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Remington Ferrari
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ca. May 2020
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I thought this image did a good job of encapsulating my pandemic education this past spring for a couple of reasons. The biggest for me was that I (and every student) missed out on the chance to work around my peers. Yes we got to use Zoom, but that doesn’t really replace what I’m talking about. I missed sitting in class working on an assignment with friends, just talking and having a good time. It's not something I ever really appreciated before, but once I started having to sit at my kitchen table all day doing my work, I really missed the casual conversation that would be sparked up when in the classroom setting with friends. The other thing I missed was the relationships I had built with my teachers. I am fortunate in the sense that I loved pretty much everything about my high school, and had a great high school experience. A big part of that was that I really liked the vast majority of my teachers. I built great relationships with a lot of them, and really appreciated being able to go over work with them. Having to submit work electronically was a bummer for me because it made it harder to get feedback on my work. Of course my teachers would leave comments and stuff on any submitted work, and they did the best they could, but it just wasn’t the same as being able to communicate this in person. In general, I just really missed the human interaction element of being in school.
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Springfield College
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Remington Ferrari
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English
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Pandemic Education Example.jpg
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