The Pondering Pandemic
31 Mar 2020My Personal Pandemic
Corona virus is a serious pandemic, but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t having a good time in quarantine. I no longer have to wake up early to go to class; as courses have all moved to zoom. Because I only have to attend lectures from time to time, I have a lot more free time to enjoy myself as well as getting ahead in assignments. I now have the opportunity to work on the hobbies that I couldn’t do due to school and work. Likewise, I no longer have to work as much as I used to which adds up even more time I can spend on doing other things. Even though school is still in session I am able to relax, a silver lining during this terrible pandemic.
I’m not an outdoorsy person, but that’s because it’s enough for me to see my friends at school. I can’t properly workout anymore, my parents are always yelling at me whenever I’m not doing something productive, and none of my friends enjoy playing the games I like. Boredom, a first world problem now seems to be global as everyone should be staying home.
The College Cost
The absence of school life makes it feel like an extended spring break. With the ability to sleep in and do classwork in the comfort of my own home, it is a stress reliever for a lot of students. On the contrary there is a lot of things that have been hindered dude to the virus. Club, fairs, and meetings have all been dropped or at least substantially reduced. College is a time of making connections, meeting new people and doing new things. Due to the virus I can’t helped but feel robbed of what College is about. Their is also something about learning inside an environment where you are conditioned to learn. Many of us who are at home are used to being relaxed at home, and don’t have the self learning drive to work as hard as they did before the Corona pandemic. I find myself having to push myself harder when it comes to completing work than before.
The age of technology thrives during this pandemic. ICS courses have been the ones who have best adapted when we moved to online courses. Everything has already been recorded on YouTube, assignments are pre-made and can still be applied on schedule. In fact, most of the topics we learned in 314 have been from assignments and practices that we do at home. Computer science is one of the most self directed career after all. Solutions for colleges in future pandemics is just an issue of preparedness. As a country we were not prepared, and it is a good lesson to prepare for workloads to move online. We are in the technology age and as we advance there will hopefully be better applications and set instructions for when an emergency happens again. So much free time lets us ponder. Perhaps some of us ICS students will lead that advancement.