What Does This Year’s New Normal Look Like for Terriers?
Student vlogger Kreiver Zhou’s exuberant take on return to in-person learning and socializing
What Does This Year’s New Normal Look Like for Terriers?
What Does This Year’s New Normal Look Like for Terriers?
Like most students, Kreiver Zhou has seen firsthand how BU was transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Unable to return home to Venezuela when the pandemic struck Boston in March 2020 and forced most students to leave campus, Zhou (ENG’23) stayed in his Warren Towers room, taking classes remotely and living on a largely shuttered campus, far from family and friends.
And last year, it was the ups and downs of Learn from Anywhere—BU’s hybrid teaching model—and a radically different social life. Campus life as he’d known it freshman year was gone. He couldn’t linger over a meal with friends in a campus dining hall, meet up for a volleyball game at FitRec, or gather in-person for club meetings. Spontaneity was missing.
In this vlog, he takes us on an enthusiastic exuberant, and entertaining trip through the new semester, showing how remarkably different campus life is this year, as in-person learning and living has mostly resumed. He offers a glimpse of what the “new normal” looks like on campus, as dining, sports, club life, and classes return to what they (mostly) were before the pandemic. Take a look.
Kreiver Zhou (ENG’23) can be reached at kreiverz@bu.edu.
Comments & Discussion
Boston University moderates comments to facilitate an informed, substantive, civil conversation. Abusive, profane, self-promotional, misleading, incoherent or off-topic comments will be rejected. Moderators are staffed during regular business hours (EST) and can only accept comments written in English. Statistics or facts must include a citation or a link to the citation.