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What Is Going On?
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What Is Going On?
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Listen…I don’t know who else can agree on this with me, but doesn’t it just feel like a
light switch went on and suddenly the world knew what the Corona virus was? When I sit down
and reflect on the first time I remember hearing of it, my mind draws a blank. It’s like this huge
conspiracy within my own mind, that one day I just woke up and all of a sudden was in the loop.
There is talk that it started in December, and there is talk of people first hearing in January, for
me personally, I have no clue. This is not something any of us prepared for…parents are out of
jobs, businesses are declining rapidly being forced to shut down, schools closing and children
losing proper education tools. It feels like a horror story, I truly think it is, and I already know
down the road in the future my kids will ask about my experience in it and how it impacted me.
That is why I am trying to document everything, write journal entries, take videos, to truly
remember what I felt at a time like this. I don’t ever want to forget it. But I want it to end.
For the first time in my mother’s 35+ years of working, she’s had to file for
unemployment. Never did I think that my mom would be unemployed. Things happen though,
and since humans are so adaptable it’s been wild to see everyone adjust and learn this new
normal. If you would have told me a month ago that my world would be turned upside down, I
would have such a hard time believing you. I am a senior in college. I go to Marymount
University, and this semester was supposed to be the time of my life. My friends and I took a
history course that went abroad to Paris for spring break. That was supposed to be in early
March. You’d think it was a joke that 2 hours before boarding the bus to head to the airport and
we get an email that our trip had just officially been cancelled. This was so early on with the
virus, no talk of quarantine, I didn’t even know what that term was at the time. It wasn’t until
middle of the following week that people began discussing the possibility of it taking place. Fast
forward to now, nearly 2 months later and over half of my spring semester became online, my
graduation was cancelled, and almost all of my friends moved home. My internship got
cancelled, and my last day as a senior just disintegrated in front of my eyes.
Despite anything, I’ve been trying to find the positives in this situation and grow more so
that once this is all over, I can reflect and be proud of what I did. I think it is important that
everyone just does what they can to be safe and take precautions, but that they do what they need
to fulfill their daily needs to stay happy. Though this has single-handedly been the worst thing to
happen in my lifetime, there is a lot to be learned and improved on. But seriously…I still wonder
.. what is going on..?!
light switch went on and suddenly the world knew what the Corona virus was? When I sit down
and reflect on the first time I remember hearing of it, my mind draws a blank. It’s like this huge
conspiracy within my own mind, that one day I just woke up and all of a sudden was in the loop.
There is talk that it started in December, and there is talk of people first hearing in January, for
me personally, I have no clue. This is not something any of us prepared for…parents are out of
jobs, businesses are declining rapidly being forced to shut down, schools closing and children
losing proper education tools. It feels like a horror story, I truly think it is, and I already know
down the road in the future my kids will ask about my experience in it and how it impacted me.
That is why I am trying to document everything, write journal entries, take videos, to truly
remember what I felt at a time like this. I don’t ever want to forget it. But I want it to end.
For the first time in my mother’s 35+ years of working, she’s had to file for
unemployment. Never did I think that my mom would be unemployed. Things happen though,
and since humans are so adaptable it’s been wild to see everyone adjust and learn this new
normal. If you would have told me a month ago that my world would be turned upside down, I
would have such a hard time believing you. I am a senior in college. I go to Marymount
University, and this semester was supposed to be the time of my life. My friends and I took a
history course that went abroad to Paris for spring break. That was supposed to be in early
March. You’d think it was a joke that 2 hours before boarding the bus to head to the airport and
we get an email that our trip had just officially been cancelled. This was so early on with the
virus, no talk of quarantine, I didn’t even know what that term was at the time. It wasn’t until
middle of the following week that people began discussing the possibility of it taking place. Fast
forward to now, nearly 2 months later and over half of my spring semester became online, my
graduation was cancelled, and almost all of my friends moved home. My internship got
cancelled, and my last day as a senior just disintegrated in front of my eyes.
Despite anything, I’ve been trying to find the positives in this situation and grow more so
that once this is all over, I can reflect and be proud of what I did. I think it is important that
everyone just does what they can to be safe and take precautions, but that they do what they need
to fulfill their daily needs to stay happy. Though this has single-handedly been the worst thing to
happen in my lifetime, there is a lot to be learned and improved on. But seriously…I still wonder
.. what is going on..?!
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English
Emotion
English
Education--Universities
English
Biography
English
Business & Industry
English
Travel
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Collection (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
05/08/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
05/13/2020
11/30/2020
1/26/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
05/08/2020
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3696