When it’s time to look back and reflect on this semester as a whole, it would be impossible, in every sense of the word, not to think about COVID-19 and its impact on all of our experiences. This semester started on a good foot. I liked my classes, and I was more than happy to be back on UD’s beautiful campus with my friends. I was just getting in the groove with my clinical and starting to get into a new routine. I’m sure I can speak for most when I say that everything changed faster than we had expected. Going home for spring break turned into going home for the semester. Going home for the semester turned into staying inside as only essential tasks and travel were permitted.
Flexibility has always been a necessity for life, but never to the extent that we are experiencing today and the foreseeable future. Interpersonal anything has been put on hold and replaced with remote interaction. Every single person, impacted in some way or another. The most important thing I think we’ve all had to learn this semester/over the past few months is flexibility in every sense of the word.
As we continue to endure what COVID-19 brings, we must continue to be flexible. Everyday activities changing so dramatically in a matter of days forced flexibility on those who are set in their ways. Grocery shopping, going out to eat, spending time with friends and family, nothing is the same and probably never will be. We’ll come out of this pandemic with a greater ability to be flexible. The adjustment to working online or wearing masks when going out in a public setting has prepped us to roll with the punches.
I’m sure last semester I would’ve written about the new things I learned in anatomy or being away from home. However, I don’t think anything amounts to the things I’ve learned from this pandemic, flexibility certainly being one of them.
English 110 Spring 2020 10:10-11:00 
What drew me to your piece was your picture– it was extremely clever and lightened a difficult situation. I enjoyed your take on our current situation and the changes we are going to have to face. Times are still uncertain and we as a community need to follow the flexibility you outlined in the case that the Fall semester doesn’t work out like we hope. Thank you for a great semester of writing!
-Hannah Kirby
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I really enjoyed this post and your writing. I completely agree with you about flexibility. I wrote about this too, because it’s probably the most important thing to learn coming out of all this. I really liked how you pointed out the differences between what you would have said you learned last semester, with class material and being away from home, and what you learned this semester. It emphasizes that, in a way, this whole thing has built our character more than a normal semester would. Like you said, it has made us learn life lessons like the importance of flexibility and adaption, which some people might not have learned without this crisis.
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