For homeless or LGBTQ+ students whose parents rejected them, what then?
. Many students have had no choice but to turn to crowdfunding and “Venmo-boosting” efforts on social media. Similar to how some people launch GoFundMes to pay their medical bills, these efforts also feel, frankly, dystopian as fuck — particularly given the large endowments of some of the elite schools — but it’s helping for the time being, a crowdfunding Band-Aid over one of society’s many bullet holes.
At Yale University, junior Meghanlata Gupta said she’s worried about loss of income from her campus job. While Yale has also provided students with an, many situations aren’t on it. “It definitely feels stressful in the sense that I’m unsure of what my four campus jobs will look like,” Gupta, who says she gets substantial financial aid from the university, told Refinery29. “One of them I can do remotely, but I’m worried about losing the weekly payments from working on campus.
Rather than going online for the rest of the semester, some schools are employing a wait-and-see method. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County has asked students to move out of residence halls and canceled or postponed all events until April 5. But campus buildings remain open, and there is a potential for students to come back to campus after two weeks of online instruction starting March 23. Maryland has 12 recorded cases of coronavirus, far fewer than Massachusetts.
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