Blog post 8 - Dina Seremet

Well, it appears we are amidst an epidemic. I never ever expected that this is how my second semester of my first year of college would go. I thought that I would complete my semester and then begin a summer semester with no problems. Everything about my first year of college would go smoothly. I would be attending all my 8am Biology lectures and my 8am Friday Chemistry lab. However, here I am, waiting for us to transition to online classes just like many of the colleges in Boston have already done. I genuinely have no idea what is going to happen. Perhaps Northeastern might even cancel school. I hear some colleges in Boston are not letting their students come back to campus after their spring break. This is hard because we already paid for housing and meal plans. Now, this money is going to go to waste. Also, although it will be nice living at home for a while, I think it will get lonely. I really do like living in my apartment with all my friends and being able to hang out with my friends whenever I want. I know this shouldn’t be a concern of mine at this time, but it is. I also don’t know what will happen with our weekly tutoring session at the EMK school. I also think it will be difficult to write Chemistry lab reports without actually completing the labs. Also, I was planning on volunteering at a local hospital in the spring, but, now, I do not think this is the best idea. Also, I just finished my application process with Big Sister. For Big Sister, I would go to a local school in Boston once a week and develop a relationship with one girl at the school. Now, I don’t know what will happen with that either. Everything is in question. This surely is not how I imagined it. Even when CoronaVirus began spreading in Europe, I didn’t think it would come to America or Boston. It completely slipped my mind, but here it is. Now, cases are doubling overnight in Massachusetts and the state has declared a state of emergency. It is very scary to think that just a few months ago, I was living in Europe. I was studying abroad in Greece. During my time there, I was traveling all around Europe. I even traveled to Italy.  If this virus broke out a few months earlier, my entire first semester of college would have been destroyed. It would have been disastrous. Thankfully, we were so beyond lucky. I am so grateful that our semester was virus-free. NUin is such an amazing experience and it is so sad that the incoming freshmen’s experience may be canceled because of this vicious virus. Also, I never ever thought we would run out of hand sanitizer in a lot of local stores. Hopefully, we won’t run out of other supplies too. It is really scary time for the world. Who knows when the virus will be gone.