#9 - Dina Seremet

Well, this college experience is definitely one I will never forget. I think this catastrophe will be remembered by all. Soon, we will be telling our kids about how we survive this crazy pandemic. On Wednesday, we were told that Northeastern would begin online classes on Thursday. This announcement made me very excited. We could do online classes and still live on campus with our friends. This meant no longer needing to wake up at 8am for Biology. However, they later told us that we needed to move completely off-campus. So on Sunday, I moved all of my stuff out of 10 Coventry and said my goodbyes, thinking I would be seeing all my friends very soon or at least for Summer I semester. However, now I don’t know the next time I will see them. Hopefully, we will all be able to see each other soon. Although we can facetime, it’s never the same as interacting in person. Now, even Summer I semester is going to be online. Never did it once cross my mind that I would be moving out early in my freshman year of college. This is crazy. There was so much I was looking forward to and I was just getting used to everything. We still had so many weeks left to tutor students at EMK. At the moment, I am home writing my blog post, the only thing I’ve been able to motivate myself to do. I have not been able to force myself to do basically any work since Wednesday, the day they announced online classes. It really worries me because if I can’t get into a routine, I don’t think I will be productive. Also, it stinks because I can’t even go to the gym so now I will have to do whatever I can at my house. I need to establish a routine on when to do work for my classes and when to work out at home. Yesterday, I did nothing except go to the grocery store with my friends. Of course, we wore gloves as we maneuvered around the empty store. I decided beginning today that I would self-quarantine as the situation continues to get worse and worse. Although I really don’t want to, especially since I’m the only person in the house, I knew it would be best. My mom is still working from the early morning to the late evening with her patients, but the office tells her that soon they will either move to telemedicine or to the hospital. My mom is a dermatologist and internist. This means she sees a lot of patients that complain of flu-like symptoms. When a patient does have these symptoms, they have to call and warn the office they are coming so they can get all geared up. However, some patients don’t want to call ahead of time, so they work around the system. This is really scary. I am so worried about my mom getting corona because, well, she isn’t young. Another thing that makes me upset is that she says that this triggers her back to the time of the Bosnian war. This time is very scary and I really hope it ends very soon.