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 Connor Fisher | Student Submission
Coronavirus affects everyone’s lives nowadays, like it or not, and everyone has their own stories about it. My account of it has been relatively plain, all things considered, but my family in general has jumped in on some of the crazier aspects of outbreak survival.
This household works well on normal days, but as soon as the outbreak started, my father immediately felt the need to grab as much cleaning and personal care products as humanly possible, trying store after store to see if they had toilet paper, hand sanitizer, or any sort of disinfectant in stock. Normally, he barely cares about all the small germs all over the place, but because of the feeding frenzy for all this product, he now feels it is extremely important to have absurd amounts squirrelled away in case this turns into an apocalyptic event.
School has also been thrown for a loop with everything being thrown online for the rest of the semester. Some people take physical classes because it makes it easier to remember things when you learn about them in-person, and others take them in-person because they need some help quickly and directly from the person teaching them.
Taking online courses for the rest of the semester really changes plans for people like me. I was a student who took physical classes because I learned better when there was someone explaining a topic physically, in an environment where I couldn’t just pull out my phone and look away at any point with little to no consequences.
The point is that people like me took physical classes to keep them focused on a singular task, and now that things have been pushed online, it takes a much larger conscious effort to keep on task when you can give up at any point, and have no consequences.
TCC first-year student Connor Fisher is from Crawfordville.
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