Sabrina Shao's 9th Blog Post

I am writing this today on Saturday, March 14th, 2020, after I have received that email from Northeastern telling me that I have been evicted from my dorm and I now have nowhere to go. Not necessarily nowhere considering my sister does have an apartment in Boston but since I don’t actually own a house here in the USA, anywhere I do go, I will be a burden to someone.

I am U.P.S.E.T.

U for unthinkably angry
P for pissed
S for sad
E for enraged
T for terribly upset

I just feel like I am being cheated and now I want to find a rooftop and scream into the abyss. I get it. It’s not like it’s Northeastern’s fault that the Coronavirus has gotten so bad, but I still can’t help but feel like I am being thrown out of my new home before I really got to settle down. First and foremost, Northeastern shipped me off to a whole new country and even though I really did love that experience, I didn’t get to be here on campus and when I have finally arrived on campus, 2 months later, I am being shipped out again. I had plans that have to be cancelled now because of this. I wanted a normal freshman year but no. Northeastern was like let’s make her go to a whole new country for her first semester and now let’s not let her actually finish her freshman year on campus or see her sister graduate at TD garden like all those who graduated did before her. I know that this has been done for our safety because having the Coronavirus is really bad but come on, we aren’t really the ones being threatened and it is just better if they let me live in my dorm.

I would like to add to my answer from the many classes ago about who I would like to punch. I would like to punch whoever at Northeastern that was involved in making this decision to kick me out. 

This whole rant has reminded me of a meme I saw on some Northeastern meme site.




I thought it was very relatable because even though I am extremely mad, I do think that my feelings are somewhat unjustified. Northeastern is doing this for my safety and for the safety of all those around me but all I can think about is how my freshman year of college is ruined.

Maybe “ruined” is a little dramatic but I am just mad that it was cut short. I never got the opportunity to play for the water polo club team or to have my finals with my friends. Now, I am going to be at home all day, doing work. I just feel like since we already paid for housing and meal plans, why can’t we stay. I am trying so hard to see Northeastern’s side of this which is somewhat reasonable and yet, every time I try to say, yes Northeastern is doing a good thing for us, I can’t help but see my side again. This is probably because I am writing this right after seeing the email and I am still very emotionally influenced. Anyways, the whole point of this blog post was to write about how unfair it is that I have to go home now even though Northeastern did say that I was allowed to say. It’s fine. I’m fine. No hard feelings whatsoever.