Column: My personal mental health journey during the pandemic
Design by Daena Faustino. —
I was sitting at my desk at work in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology building planning my weekends in Paris and Rome for my upcoming study abroad over the summer when Michigan State sent the email informing students and staff that they were shutting down campus due to the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID was still a distant worry and I still held out hope — a very naïve hope in retrospect — that it wouldn’t impact me or MSU.
When the email hit my inbox, I sat at my desk in disbelief. I watched students begin to scramble around the first floor of the building trying to figure out whether they should keep studying for their physics exam or leave as they were instructed.