The coronavirus pandemic has affected millions of people across the globe, including college students. Schools and colleges have shifted classes online for the rest of the semester, graduation and other school activities have been cancelled and students’ academic plans have been affected. Many Tallahassee Community College students returned home, some students stayed in town, but all of them are doing their best to fulfill their academic requirements to finish out the semester despite the societal upheaval.
By Anne Reavely | Student Submission
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected my life at TCC and my human psyche. I am no longer in the comfort of my apartment in Tallahassee, but in self-quarantine with my family in Atlanta. To help limit the spread of the coronavirus, I know the best thing I can do for myself and for everyone is to stay home.
Since being home, I have had to readjust to being under my parents’ roof as well as to the rules set by the coronavirus. My stepfather’s extreme anxieties pertaining to illnesses are inescapable. I now take my temperature every three hours. Everything smells like rubbing alcohol and Lysol. A simple trip to the grocery store is now a covert mission fashioned with gloves and face masks.
For the past couple of weeks, I have found myself tossing and turning until about 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. After about five hours of sleep, I somedays rarely leave my bed or look at my phone because I think: “What’s the point?”
While on FaceTime with some of my close friends, we discussed one of the worst parts of this situation is not knowing when it will be over. The I don’t know factor is the cerebral symptom of COVID-19.
Anne Reavely is a second-year Tallahassee Community College student.
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