In times where I doubted if Penn State was the place for me, THON has always been there. For this reason, I want to do everything in my power to foster this same passion for this organization in the next THON volunteer.
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Roughly 35,000 students came back to Penn State this fall for classes during the coronavirus pandemic. One out of every seven of those students contracted COVID-19 during the semester. Some Penn State students who tested positive shared their experiences with the virus and whether catching it made them more or less cautious.
Junior Nate Paisley contracted COVID-19 in mid-September. He felt achy and lost his sense of taste and smell for two weeks. After that he felt fine, and he found an added benefit to getting over the coronavirus.
“Now, I can kind of just like not really have to worry about it as much, which is definitely a nice relief, Paisley said.