By Katrina Liu Let’s face it: Zoom University, while great in the way that I can literally roll out of bed and attend class with bleary eyes and a quickly made cup of tea, is also a huge struggle. You’re in your room 75 percent of the day, which can drive you stir-crazy. You’re attending […]
Read More →By Sophia Yakumithis I’ve been taking my classes entirely remotely and let me tell you: it’s so not my speed. I have a difficult enough time sitting still in class. I’ve always found excuses to get up and walk around in the hallway about halfway through lectures and if my professor is the type who […]
Read More →By Julia Furmanek After what felt like a never-ending summer spent in the soft confines of my childhood home, adulthood and the responsibilities it so affectionately threw my way have come on hard and fast now that the semester has started. September brought a rapid succession of Zoom meetings, club emails and work schedules all […]
Read More →By Sophia Yakumithis I don’t know if anyone cares about me, but I wanted to give everyone an update on how I’m doing. If you don’t care about me, that’s fine, I don’t care about me either. But consider this a case study. I’ve organized this update into sections that reflect the factors currently determining […]
Read More →By Sophia Yakumithis I prepared a loaf of bread during a seminar class on Monday because I had the camera turned off. And I can do what I want now that my governor put all of us under house arrest. It’s terrible, though, that I now feel such a sense of autonomy over not just […]
Read More →By Aasha Amber Bhatnagar Thinking I would be able to go to Marciano Commons’ vegan station every day after returning from spring break, I went vegetarian. That was before we heard from the university about campus closures amid the coronavirus outbreak in Boston. If I could imagine any other scenario as to how this semester […]
Read More →By Sophia Yakumithis I’m fine. No, I’m not. But I am. But I’m not. I was expecting for us to go remote for the rest of the year since this all started going worse. In fact, I think I was more surprised about President Brown’s original decision to delay the verdict until the beginning of […]
Read More →By Aasha Amber Bhatnagar Boston University has recently become “Zoom University.” The Terriers are now the “Quaran-terriers,” we can show up to “class” wearing whatever we want and we can tune into lectures live from our beds. As someone from the West Coast, my 8 a.m.’s have recently become 5 a.m.’s, and the last thing […]
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