Opinion | Isabela Espadas Barros Leal: 'With the pandemic ... it’s easy to feel like our problems and assignments are insignificant. But I have a feeling that our willingness to accept our new reality is integral to us getting through it.' - NBCNewsTHINK
So far, the shift has come with many challenges. Changes in housing and living situations present obvious problems in terms of time differences and learning environments administrators promised us was worth a small fortune?
But there may also be a silver lining. I actually found my classmates making even more attempts to smile and connect with each other online than we had in person. Through a tiny screen, they let me into their worlds in a new way. I saw how they liked to arrange their pillows and stuffed animals, and the way they slouched against them while taking notes during lecture.Witnessing these incredibly private details of my peers’ life made me humanize them in ways I had not done so before.
Part of what makes the shift to social distancing so difficult to accept for college seniors is it has robbed us of our last few months in an admittedly very privileged cocoon of academia and friendship. Senior year isn’t an event, it’s an entire life stage abruptly cut short by the introduction of a new reality. For years, we have been warily eyeing the transition that awaits us after graduation. We have been fearing it — and preparing for it.
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