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Hidden Benefit, Anonymous

Community Reflections

During the COVID-19 pandemic, everything that was normal for me was no longer normal.

Remembering Covid, Anonymous

Community Reflections

My content expresses how I felt during the time of the Covid lockdown. I reflect back on my emotions during March 2020, and what life was like during that time. I also reflected on the fact that life was different in different parts of America. New York vs. Florida during peak Covid time was like living in two completely different worlds, which is explained in more detail in the document.

Byproduct Of Covid, Anonymous

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Covid Pandemic Reflection, Anonymous

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At first feelings of shock, confusion and disappointment started flooding my mind, but over'me as more and more media coverage on the virus surfaced this original two week shut down became a much more serious and scary reality. At first so called “zoom school” didn’t seem so bad, but then the crushing realiza'on of not being able to go out, see friends or even show our faces without a mask quickly came over me.

Covid 19 And The Plague, Anonymous

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As time went on being so isolated started to take a toll mentally. Going into the summer the restrictions started to lighten up and I was able to see my friends outside for the first time in months. Many people were still very scared of getting covid, my parents included.

Impact Of Quarantine, Anonymous

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Quarantine was quite the defining moment in my life and when I reflect back on almost 3 years ago now I can recognize that their were negative and positive moments as well.

A New Way Of Living, Anonymous

Community Reflections

Life was very different for me as a high school student during the Covid-19 epidemic. It was a frightening moment when a virus that no one understood suddenly engulfed the whole planet. One of the significant adjustments was going to school.

Covid, Cancer And Chaos, Anonymous

Community Reflections

Right before COVID, my mother was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer, and needed to undergo chemotherapy while quarantining at home. During quarantine, people’s stories were that they stayed inside all day and did nothing, but for me, it was the complete opposite. My mom was very sick and weak, which meant that me and my sisters needed to step up.

Covid 19 And Other Pandemics, Anonymous

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The Coronavirus was a global pandemic that spread from China to the United States in March 2020. In March, it was announced to us that the United States had to go into lockdown for two weeks. Little did we know that this two-week lockdown was going to turn into almost a year. This news was found to be very surprising by everyone because it has been so many years since we had a pandemic that affected everyone.

How I Want Future Generations To Remember Covid-19, Anonymous

Community Reflections

For the future generations, I want them to know that COVID-19 wasn’t just “two weeks off from school”, I want them to know and realize that life was troublesome for many people and families still haven’t recovered years later.

My Account Of Covid- 19, Ryan Anonymous

Community Reflections

It was March 13, 2020, when the first encounter happened. The Coronavirus was still new to many of us, so we really did not know the true severity that this virus had in store. One morning, during second period, the entire school was called down to the auditorium for an impromptu assembly. With the recent closings of neighboring schools, we were certain that we were the next to close; everyone was ecstatic.

Covid- 19, Anonymous

Community Reflections

Many aspects of our daily lives were thrown into disarray because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even until January 2023, no one knew what true, long-term consequences it would have. It would introduce new customs that many of us had never experienced before, like wearing masks, keeping six feet apart, and not shaking each other's hands to introduce ourselves. We have not seen such an outbreak since the 1980s with HIV and AIDS in the U.S., where there was so much paranoia within our society that we were constantly sanitizing our hands and quarantining when someone was infected with COVID-19.

My Covid Lesson, Anonymous

Community Reflections

What was supposed to be a two-week break turned into months of quarantining and not seeing any of my close friends. Covid-19 was hard on many people. During this time, I found who I am on my own.

Remembering Covid, Anonymous

Community Reflections

This is a short reflection on my experience as a firefighter during the COVID-19 pandemic.

My Brutal Covid Experience, Anonymous

Community Reflections

Within weeks, Covid 19 was present in the United States. It affected everyone in the world. Nobody knew what to do at the start of this, and nobody completely knew what was going on.

Covid Birthday, Anonymous

Community Reflections

Covid 19 was a shock to us all. No one knew what to expect. It was a new way of living for everyone.

Family Experience, Anonymous

Community Reflections

It started with whispers in the hallway. Hearing rumors from peers that we would have two weeks off from school and then return to share stories from those glorious 14 days. In hindsight, it was naïve to think that Covid-19 would have such little impact on my life, but it eventually struck my family as it did thousands of others.

My Covid Experience, Anonymous

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Each person today has had such different covid experiences, in this paragraph I will be going into depth my own covid experience. My sophomore year of high school, I was homeschooled, taking classes at home for months due to several different circumstances.

My Covid Reflection, Anonymous

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March 2020 is a year that I will never forget. Covid-19 was becoming more known, but it did not affect my dance team trip. My team and I were in Orlando, Florida for NDA Dance Nationals. I felt so drained and feverish, a sickness I have never had before.

Covid Reflection, Anonymous

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The Covid-19 pandemic was an unforgettable time in the lives of anybody who had the ability to form memories. It was an absolutely unprecedented event that scared the entire world into locking themselves inside for months at a time to avoid risk of a very dangerous condition that could affect anybody enough to hospitalize them. When many of us who lived through this era think about the pandemic, we can reflect on it as a time when the world stopped moving.

Remembering Covid-19, David Anonymous

Community Reflections

My content is primarily about my personal experience and feelings I've had during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Working At An Assisted Living Facility During Covid, Anonymous

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For the past few years, learning how to deal with a pandemic referred to as Covid-19, was an everyday struggle for humankind. The fear of leaving your house to get groceries, or even going to work had people struggling to live the life of what was worry-free. At the very beginning of the pandemic, I was working at my very first job, which was at an assisted living facility. I was a server at the dining hall in the facility and made great connections with some really nice people. In the midst of the first wave of Covid, the facility …

Covid-19 Reflection, Anonymous

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The COVID-19 Pandemic was one of the most difficult times in recent history for not only the infected, but also the general public. When COVID-19 first became an issue in the United States with schools closing down for two weeks in March of 2020, I was a junior attending a private, all-boys high school. When the school officially closed, we began virtual classes which was a difficult adjustment due to classes being taught on Zoom and the schedules of classes being strangely different. This form of learning was difficult for me personally.

How Covid Affected My Gymnastics, Anonymous

Community Reflections

I had a moment where I lost a love for the sport I had been in for eleven years as I lost a lot of the skills that came easy prior to COVID and some have still been difficult to get back even today.

How Covid Changed School, Anonymous

Community Reflections

I would have told you that this is a science-fiction story but it actually happened to me while I was in high school. My experience in high school was just like everyone else’s that I knew. There were good days and bad days. It was a lot like my older sister’s experience in high school until it wasn't due to COVID-19.

Learning During Covid, Anonymous

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This shows how covid effected my education as well as my mental health.

Teaching Assistant Responses To Covid-19: Investigating Relationships Between Stress, Self-Efficacy, And Approaches To Teaching, Cody R. Smith, Deepika Menon, Annette Wierzbicki, Jenny Dauer

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

This study investigates the self-efficacy of undergraduate and graduate TAs associated with changes in instruction after the COVID-19 disruption to the spring 2020 semester.

Guiding research questions include: (i) What are the relationships among TA teacher efficacy and stress resulting from the COVID-19 disruption? (ii) What experiences do TAs describe that contribute to their stress and teacher efficacy?

Implications of the results for supporting TAs during similarly stressful events and circumstances are discussed.

Keeping Our Bodies And Minds Healthy Is Crucial, Grace Miller

Community Reflections

In my history class, I was asked to submit a part of my paper to the archive. The question asked "What would you want future generations to know about what life during the COVID pandemic was like?" I responded my offering my observations during the quarantine followed by what I think could be learned from the patterns I experienced during that time.

The Covid Pandemic Primary Source Paper, Anonymous

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Class assignment for Western Civilization, Professor Marino.

The Covid pandemic was the first world crisis my generation has lived through and been a part of. Almost every aspect of daily life had changed during the height of the pandemic, and some of these changes will most likely remain forever.

Covid Experience, Jorge Gracia

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My personal experience about the pandemic has been for me a lesson of life from which I was able to learn many things.