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Why College Students are Effected Most by COVID-19

The lasting effect COVID-19 will have on the Class of 2020 & college students to come.

Abby08
Apr 15, 2020
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Why College Students are Effected Most by COVID-19

Imagine this...


It’s the last week before Spring Break starts, your 20 years old and jam packed with projects and midterms to get done before you leave. Your friends are waiting for you to walk to the dining hall with them to get some food and go do some homework. It’s a regular Monday, you’ve heard about Corona Virus, there’s a few cases in Washington State but nothing that alarms you. By Wednesday, their is cases of COVID-19 in your state. The university makes an announcement that Spring Break will be extended to two-weeks. All of the sudden things start to get scary. You think “it’s only two weeks, I’ll only be home for two weeks.”. Sports seasons get cancelled, the NBA haults their play, then your friends in the NCAA find out their senior season isn’t happening. They cry because this was the last time they would take the field with their teammates. Gone.

You begin packing your belongings, taking the essentials, not certain of if or when you will return. Hugging your friends, the people who have felt like family for the last 6 months of your life. One by one, they start to leave, you say your goodbyes and hope that you’ll see one another in two weeks. The drive home is quite, trying to process what has happened and what will happen in all this uncertainty. There was so many things left to do in the semester, so many more memories to be made. Now, here you are in your childhood bedroom, a suitcase full of two weeks worth of clothes and a bag full of school books. Your whole life just flipped upside-down in a matter of three days. What now? Your job laid you off, your friends aren’t around to support you, online classes are confusing, not one professor is understanding, no student loan forgiveness, no aid for renters in off-campus housing. Problems that were never a second thought are now being faced head-on.

My heart cries for the Class of 2020, they may never know the memories to be made in the last months of their senior year. When this is over may we never forget the value of just being in the company of your friends or an in-person class with our peers.


- a college student.

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