Winnipeg Free Press
International university students learning from home face additional challenges during year of remote learning
Yuhang Liu was 13 hours ahead of his classmates, but he couldn’t keep up with them.
It was mid-October and Liu’s collection of empty energy drink cans in his bedroom which, ever since he had flown home to Hong Kong during the initial COVID-19 lockdown in Winnipeg, had also turned into a lecture hall and library had become a constant reminder of how sleep-deprived he was. It was like life-support in the middle of the night, recalls Liu, a third-year sociology student at the University of Winnipeg, about Monster Energy’s original pick-me-up.