Life Inside: BU Students on How They’re Adjusting to Social Distancing
Life Inside: BU Students on How They’re Adjusting to Social Distancing
Life Inside: BU Students on How They’re Adjusting to Social Distancing
A lot has changed in the two weeks since BU moved all classes to remote learning. Students are now scattered across the globe, far from friends and their daily routines. How are they coping and passing the time in between Zoom lectures and homework? We reached out to six of them via Zoom for a check-in, two from their off-campus apartment in Brookline, the others from their family homes in western Massachusetts, Connecticut, Georgia—and nearly 7,000 miles away in Chandigarh, India. They talked to BU Today about the changes in their lives and how they’re staying connected with friends and roommates.
Archelle Thelemaque (COM’21), a self-described “pure extrovert” at home in Georgia with only her two parents, says it’s hard and challenging, but she’s staying positive: “None of us are alone…all of us are feeling lonely.” Srushti Dhoke (CAS’22) weighs in from India. She and her brother have been singing together like they did when they were kids, she says, and playing silly games to make each other laugh. From western Massachusetts, Javier Rivera (CAS’18, Wheelock’20) says it’s surreal interacting by screen; he’s considering taking up a hobby, which presents some logistical problems. Jack Marciano (CAS’22) is used to being constantly on the run while at school, and life at home in Connecticut is quite a change. So he’s trying sketching with oil pastels, something his family enjoys. And two off-campus roommates, Jailyn Duong (COM’20) and Taylor Rahman (CAS’20), have stayed in their Brookline digs; their routine of waking up, eating, sleeping, and staring at a screen may be a bit wearing, but it’s not a “woe is me situation.”
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