"No one said that the university was easy, especially living in a pandemic where the hugs are a weapon and a mask is the difference between life and death. I hate it. I hate that there is a chance that this will never occur . Week 1 down. College online: 1 Franny: 0. Content: feasible, Motivation: Nonexistent. "
, wrote Frances R. In one of his contributions to a new book, there is no university In Covid: Selections of the Student Journal of Oregon State University (Parafine Presidion). The book consists of a cured collection of journal entries of first-year students in OSU-Cascades enrolled in an autumn academic success course of 2020 designed to help relieve the transition to college.
Jenna Goldsmith, the teacher of the course, to the students assigned to write two daily tickets per week, of any length, about their experiences as university students during a global pandemic, and choose a selection of their Tickets that appear in the book.
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Together Tickets paint an image of the students who pass to a university experience that was different from what they had imagined.
"There really is not a university in Covid-19. It can still exist in some reduced form, but it is not really a university," Spencer V. wrote at an entry from which the title of the book takes . "Something is wrong, you can only feel it in class, when you go find your food, when you try to fall asleep at night, it feels like a hurriedly cobbled facsimile."
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"I can not lose my job at this time," wrote Lucy F, who pointed out that her work was at risk if a two-week closure was extended over companies.
"I attended my grandfather's funeral this week. He died of the virus. There are no comments," Susan G wrote.
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"I miss you grandfather./it suck that left us this way. Hands of this virus," Gulian C. He wrote at an entry entitled "Covid-19 Poem".
The entries ran the range and touched everything from the frustration with the adhesion of the lax until the public health measures of the underlines subjected to Covid testing and fears of getting sick to internal debates about whether Travel home for Thanksgiving. The students ran their feelings of isolation and claustrophobia, lamented what could have been, and imagined what could still be.
"I went swimming this morning and after I went out in the building and had to stop very hard at the door and dig through my pocket to grab my mask and I have the chain trapped in the Zócalo Pop on my phone and almost threw it on the concrete, "Alexandria M wrote. "But thank God, I managed to get it on my wet face and #Savelives."
The book was funded with a subsidy of the women's delivery circle of Oregon State University, and all profits will be allocated to OSU-cascades scholarships. Goldsmith said she did some light editing for clarity, but the tickets are faithful to the voices of the students. She made the editorial decision to identify the students for the first of her.
