Blog Post #10 - Victoria Nemeth

This weekend marked a week of being home, and a week since online classes started.  A lot has changed in the past week including moving home, adjusting to new classes, and spending LOTS of time with my family. :)  I think that being home, and away from a school environment has posed a lot of challenges for me to try to get my school work done.  I currently have my school stuff set up at my dining room table and am doing my best to stay focused. I know that we are so close to the end of the semester, and it is really important to stick it out for the last month or so, but something about being home and not at school makes it really hard to get work done.   
It’s also strange “being in class” on my laptop at home because I am not really in the same mindset that I would normally be when I’m in a classroom at school.  It takes so much more for me to focus and to stay tuned into the lecture. It also doesn’t help that my brother is home from high school and literally doesn’t have any homework, so he resorts to coming to bother me for his own amusement.  I guess things could be worse. I have to keep looking on the bright side that I am home safe and healthy.  
I also feel really preoccupied now that course registration will be open soon.  I am unsure of what track I want to take in the Health Sciences program, and I feel really rushed to make a decision and to decide on doing the four or five year program.  I was going to try to get some volunteer position or shadow position at a hospital or clinic to help me narrow down what to do, but I’m not so sure that can happen now.  
Also, once spring starts to come I usually get super excited for summer.  Over the summer I spend my time working at a sleepaway camp on Lake George in NY.  I always look forward to this because I get to spend two months on the lake with some of my best friends, and get to help kids experience the summers like I used to.  It’s sort of like I’m giving back to a place that has given me so much. I am also unsure if camp will be open and running this summer, which saddens me because this will be my last year working there.  
I think maybe being at home I’m not as distracted (in the sense that I am not spending hours on the third floor of Snell, and have more time to think about other things.) I guess for the next few weeks I’ll have to learn to take things day by day.  I know for certain things this will be tough because course registration and 4 and 5 year plans require a lot of planning in advance, but I don’t really think there is a way for me to know for certain a lot of these things right now, and I have to learn to be okay with it.

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  1. Dina SeremetMarch 24, 2020 at 1:25 PM

    I completely agree with you. I set up my work space at my kitchen island, but it is impossible to stay focused during lectures, especially chemistry lecture. It is so different in class being able to actually engage and it is a completely different mindset, as you said. Hopefully, we will all be able to survive the rest of the semester.

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