Blog Post #9- Samantha Rhynard
So there are a lot of things going on with me currently, related to adjusting to online classes, and the move back home. It is a lot of little things that pile up and compound upon each other, but I know that I can figure everything out with some time to get used to it.
The two main things right now are moving classes online, and physically moving. For online classes it has been a little bit stressful, because I feel like I am going to miss something in the flood of emails that arrive irregularly, or that I have missed something in the dry points between waves when I am not getting any emails. Besides that, all of my professors are trying to adjust the classes to be online, and I have no idea if the systems in place currently will work for the rest of the semester, especially with the 4-day weekend we just had, with only two days of classes right before it. I am concerned about how testing will work in this new environment, and I haven't really even started thinking about finals yet, but I'm sure that will be messy too. I feel like because I am going to be online, and some classes will give the students more freedom to do assignments at their leisure, so I will have more opportunities to procrastinate and not get things done. And some of my professors have also given very little in terms of plans or updates on what is happening, which mostly leaves me wondering if based on the changes being made, will everything still run the same way. Conversely, some of my professors are posting a ton of stuff, but there hasn't been much clarification about what each thing posted is; I guess the real issue here is taking away in-person communication in this instance means less communication, not an equivalent transition to online communication. I feel like online classes will sort themselves out as everyone adjusts to them though.
Being home after such a short time away is a little jarring. I have never been particularly productive in the space I would be using to get work done, so I am a little concerned about that. And I can't really go anywhere else, because my town in the Bay Area of California is currently on shelter in place—or don't go anywhere unless you absolutely need to. This would nullify my contingency plan for if we were all sent home, which would be to go somewhere else to get work done, and to have a routine of getting ready that would give me a sense of productivity in the place I was going. Other issues are along the lines of my friends and significant other. One of my friends was on a mission trip until yesterday, when she flew in to LAX from Thailand. She lives on the east coast, so she was going to come visit for a week or two, but because of the shelter in place, we can't go pick her up. Additionally, the school my significant other attends has just moved classes online, and requested that students move out as well, so now they have to go through all of the trouble we just did. And I have no idea what either of our families will feel about us seeing each other with the shelter in place, but at least we will be in the same time zone.
So, lots of little things that compile, and are interconnected. But I feel like everything will work out in the end.
The two main things right now are moving classes online, and physically moving. For online classes it has been a little bit stressful, because I feel like I am going to miss something in the flood of emails that arrive irregularly, or that I have missed something in the dry points between waves when I am not getting any emails. Besides that, all of my professors are trying to adjust the classes to be online, and I have no idea if the systems in place currently will work for the rest of the semester, especially with the 4-day weekend we just had, with only two days of classes right before it. I am concerned about how testing will work in this new environment, and I haven't really even started thinking about finals yet, but I'm sure that will be messy too. I feel like because I am going to be online, and some classes will give the students more freedom to do assignments at their leisure, so I will have more opportunities to procrastinate and not get things done. And some of my professors have also given very little in terms of plans or updates on what is happening, which mostly leaves me wondering if based on the changes being made, will everything still run the same way. Conversely, some of my professors are posting a ton of stuff, but there hasn't been much clarification about what each thing posted is; I guess the real issue here is taking away in-person communication in this instance means less communication, not an equivalent transition to online communication. I feel like online classes will sort themselves out as everyone adjusts to them though.
Being home after such a short time away is a little jarring. I have never been particularly productive in the space I would be using to get work done, so I am a little concerned about that. And I can't really go anywhere else, because my town in the Bay Area of California is currently on shelter in place—or don't go anywhere unless you absolutely need to. This would nullify my contingency plan for if we were all sent home, which would be to go somewhere else to get work done, and to have a routine of getting ready that would give me a sense of productivity in the place I was going. Other issues are along the lines of my friends and significant other. One of my friends was on a mission trip until yesterday, when she flew in to LAX from Thailand. She lives on the east coast, so she was going to come visit for a week or two, but because of the shelter in place, we can't go pick her up. Additionally, the school my significant other attends has just moved classes online, and requested that students move out as well, so now they have to go through all of the trouble we just did. And I have no idea what either of our families will feel about us seeing each other with the shelter in place, but at least we will be in the same time zone.
So, lots of little things that compile, and are interconnected. But I feel like everything will work out in the end.
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