How am I doing? To be honest I am not too sure on how to answer that question exactly. One minute we were on campus joking about what would happen if we all had to close up shop and leave the university due to a raging virus and the next minute, we are doing exactly that.
My entire freshman year of college cut short. We had an entire semester left to go and all of a sudden the only thing we have left is hope that this ends as quickly as it came. I’m not saying this to gain satisfaction for the class I am writing this assignment for, but I miss my english class. I am studying medicine, yet the class that has become my favorite, english, is the class I miss the most. It became a place where everyone got to speak open-mindedly without any fear of judgement. As a class, we were all beginning to recognize one another as a friend and someone we knew so to know we will not meet again is disappointing because it was a weekly meeting I looked forward to.
On another note, I am doing well. Sitting at home, day after day, I definitely have had a lot of time to sit back and think. Think about what I have taken for granted and think about where we as a community will go from here. I used to joke saying things like, “ugh, I hate it here I’m so stressed” or “I need a break from all this it’s too much”, but I never took into account how privileged I truly was to be in such an amazing school, meeting such great people everyday, on such a wonderful campus we longer get to stroll along everyday anymore. Now that I look back, I believed there would be more moments such as those, where I complained instead of cherished, and now I sit at home wishing so badly I were back at school.
I am doing well in the midst of a global pandemic, but I am missing terribly the life I had back at the university where strangers I had just met became my closest friends and this strange place away from home ended up becoming my new favorite place.
To be completely blunt, online classes suck. Although I’m doing well emotionally and physically I realize now “normal life” as we know it may seem boring in the moment but definitely a jewel worth treasuring. The picture I inserted is none other than a picture of my dog, Luna, because if one good thing came of this quarantine it’s the fact that I can spend more time with this old lady.
Emilie Lauria
English 110 Spring 2020 10:10-11:00 
I love your post because it’s very honest and I think just about all of us can relate to it. I’m also one of those people who would complain from time to time at school about being overwhelmed and needing a break, and now that I have barely any obligations, I’m finding that I took so many simple parts of my life at school for granted. It’s crazy to me that I could miss an English class so much, like you said. The classroom had such a comfortable feel to it and now that I have a very minimal circle of people to interact with, I realize how lucky we were to have a class in which we could pour out our deepest feelings to small group of people we barely knew, and have a genuine conversation without feeling any judgement or hesitation. That’s something I won’t take for granted anymore. I also like how in your blog you come around at the end and say that even though this situation, well, sucks…there’s still positives like getting to see your pets and spend quality time with family, and more than anything we won’t under-appreciate all the little things that make life so full after this whole mess is over.
-Emma Charles
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I loved this because it’s really easy to relate to. The line, “…all of a sudden the only thing we have left is hope that this ends as quickly as it came,” really stood out to me because we really had no time to comprehend what was going on as it was happening. We all of a sudden got a notice to leave school and that was that. Another great part about this was you mentioning how English was your favorite class. On the first day of class, I was worried about it being more of a discussion class rather than a lecture, and worried that it would be awkward and boring if no one actually participated. After two weeks it was my favorite class as well because we talked about relevant things instead of basing our discussions off of random books that no one would have interest in. This is what I thought he class would be like, but the overall class setting where people were free to say what they wanted was really refreshing. I didn’t realize how great school was until being home, and it’s unfortunate that it took a pandemic to bring that up to me, but this writing made me realize that I wasn’t the only one which is extremely relieving.
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Reading this piece was so refreshing because I have had many of the same feelings throughout this weird time. I love this entire piece but my favorite part was your first paragraph. As I read it I just remembered everyone joking how Delaware was one of the few remaining states without a case, but less than 24 hours later we were closing down just like everyone else. That span of 24 hours was so crazy and I thought by starting with that was a great start to an amazing piece!
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