What college students like me have learned during the COVID year
For more than a year, weâve been lurching through the seismic changes on campus and off. Itâs been difficult, but there have been hopeful moments, too.
By David ParadelaUpdated April 8, 2021, 9:28 a.m.
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As someone who attended Boston-area schools for most of my life, I thought I had a good grasp on student life in this city. But as I joined the first Zoom session for one of my Emerson College graduate classes in March 2020, I realized how unprepared my classmates and I were for the strangeness of waiting for our professor to learn how to screen-share. After a while, this perplexity turned into fatigue. One year later, it feels more like Bill Murrayâs character trapped in