Making friends while attending college classes on Zoom is tough
The pandemic is ruining one of the most fun parts of the college experience, but maybe thereâs a silver lining.
By Colin KirklandUpdated April 8, 2021, 9:29 a.m.
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Students gather, while giving one another distance, on the stairs of Emerson Hall at Harvard University.Jakob Menendez
A tumbleweed blowing across a street. Thatâs the image that pops into Kenneth Peterâs mind when he describes the two times heâs visited Bunker Hill Community College in his first year as a student there. âItâs a ghost town,â Peter says.
Iâve never set foot in the college that I attend 1,000 miles away
I daydream of escaping the Chicago suburbs and the computer screen, and pine for the bustle of Boston streets.
By Molly MacDuffUpdated April 8, 2021, 9:33 a.m.
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The writer logs into her Emerson classes from home in Chicago.From Molly MacDuff
Two nights a week, I open my laptop and attend remote courses from a university Iâve never visited in person, in a city Iâve never seen for myself. I attend a graduate program at Emerson College, but, you know, not
at Emerson.
For graduating international students, a scramble to secure work visas
âEmployers are coming to us and telling us that itâs really Americans first right now,â says one student.
By Maya GacinaUpdated April 8, 2021, 9:37 a.m.
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Boston University senior Joey Cosio-Mercado and his peers hope to create a theatrical satire after they graduate so they can laugh about how incredibly awful this past year has been for them as international students majoring in performing arts.
When COVID first hit, Cosio-Mercado, originally from the Philippines, started worrying about post-graduation: securing a job and a visa to stay in the United States. He saw job opportunities in the performing arts industry plummet, and the visas heâs eligible for â both as a student and once he graduates â only allow employment in an industry related to his field of study.
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In 2018, Jasmine Edwards founded i-Subz, an online marketplace that matched schools and substitute teachers. She won her first $3,000 that same year during a Black Girl Ventures pitch competition in Atlanta and received her first “real investment with a term sheet” from Camelback Ventures $40,000 during her fellowship with the firm in 2019.
By February 2020, Edwards was shutting down the startup and ceasing all operations, though the LLC remains active.
“We had to because i-Subz did not get the funding,” Edwards said during a panel discussion presented by the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. “The substitutes were there; there were plenty of people to hire. And the customers were there, which were the schools. But the funding was not.”