The New Normal: Students Reflect on First Week of Learning—and Living—Remotely

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The New Normal: Students Reflect on First Week of Learning—and Living—Remotely

In a Zoom Virtual Roundtable, Terriers talk about how their lives have changed

March 24, 2020
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Still of four students, Joshua Pei (CAS’21), Morgan Moscinski (CFA’21), Michelle Njoroge (CAS’20), and Rownyn Curry (CAS’21) on a Zoom call from a video in which the students discuss the new normal, learning remotely.
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Nearly two weeks ago, Boston University urged students to return home, rather than to campus, at the end of spring break, and announced plans to begin teaching all classes remotely. As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread rapidly across the United States, Terriers have had to quickly adapt to a new normal as they learn and socialize.

How are they adjusting? This past Friday, Joshua Pei (CAS’21) led a remote roundtable discussion from his family home in California across several time zones with fellow Terriers Morgan Moscinski (CFA’21), home in Colorado, Michelle Njoroge (CAS’20), an RA in Kilachand Hall, now living with a friend off campus, and Rownyn Curry (CAS’21), studying abroad in Singapore, to reflect on the first week of remote learning and the new normal of living away from campus. Their reflections—Moscinski on sharing space with parents working remotely, Njoroge looking forward to the companionship of a dog, Curry about being on a Study Abroad trip—run the gamut.

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  • Alan Wong

    Executive Producer

    Alan Wong oversees a team of video producers who create video content for BU's online editorial publications and social media channels. He has produced more than 300 videos for Boston University, shuffling through a number of countries in the process: Australia, Argentina, Peru, Ireland, China, and Cambodia. He has also bored audiences in Atlanta and Boston giving talks on video for higher ed. Profile

  • Aaron Hwang (ENG’21)

    Student Video Producer

    Aaron Hwang (ENG’21) is majoring in mechanical engineering. He has been producing a growing number of videos for BU's various online media outlets since arriving as a freshman in 2017. After he first picked up a camera in 2013, his filmmaking has taken him to rainy Taipei streets, Tokyo shrines, Himalayan valleys, and all corners of Boston neighborhoods. His work spans dance concept videos, narrative short films, and most notably, advertisements, as the resident filmmaker for Sleek Machine. Suddenly remembering that he's an engineering student, Aaron has also been a mechanical systems leader for BU Racing and interned with independent pen manufacturer Schon DSGN. On weekends, he spends a lot of time designing his custom camera gear, playing board games, taking copious amounts of photos, and searching for Boston's best eggs Benedict. Profile

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