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From Unheard of to Unheard

Title (Dublin Core)

From Unheard of to Unheard

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

This excerpt outlines how the start of the pandemic affected the noise level of an undergraduate college campus.
When I ventured back to my undergraduate college campus the week COVID-19 started, campus should have been buzzing with classmates happy to be back from spring break. The week after spring break is normally full of students hanging out and joking around. Even only a few days away from each other creates an audible laughter throughout campus. Not this year. What few students were on campus had a mission: get their belongings from their dorm and get off campus. They were focuses, scared, and silent. There were few students and even fewer conversations. Running engines, doors opening and closing, and the birds were the only noises emerging from campus. What is usually one of the loudest weeks of the school year was completely silent—something we would have considered unheard of was literally unheard.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 16, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Abigail Houchin

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Abigail Houchin

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text Story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--Universities
English Emotion

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

spring break
silence
moving out
fear

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Arizona State University
HIST643
Sensory History
University of Northwestern St Paul
Minnesota
Silence

Collection (Dublin Core)

College COVID Stories

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/15/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/22/2021
06/27/2023

Item sets

Covid 19

This item was submitted on October 15, 2021 by Abigail Houchin using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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