Being a student...
I wrote this for my university newspaper! Find it here: https://issuu.com/cheesegratermagazine/docs/cgautumn2020-4 Being a student is hard, that goes without saying. Being a student in the middle of a pandemic is even harder. This year, due to the coronavirus, I decided to stay at home, with the hopes of commuting into campus. As the situation with the virus evolved, things changed and suddenly my idea of ‘commuting’ was commuting from the sofa to the kitchen to fill up my water bottle, seeing as there was no cause for me to go into campus. All of my classes are online and all in person events, cancelled. I came to university with the hopes of finding lifelong friends to make memories with, yet instead I have received a package of crippling loneliness and internet connection problems. Additionally, being from a working class area has made things difficult for me. There is not much to do in Dagenham. There aren’t many places in which I could meet others, leaving me isolated in my room.