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  1. What Life Was Like for Students in the Pandemic Year

    In these short essays below, teacher Claire Marie Grogan's 11th grade students at Oceanside High School on Long Island, N.Y., describe their pandemic experiences. Their writings have been ...

  2. My Experience During The Covid-19 Pandemic

    Conclusion. In conclusion, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on my life. It affected me physically, mentally, and emotionally and challenged my ability to cope with adversity. However, it also taught me valuable lessons and allowed me to grow as an individual. This is only a sample.

  3. My Life Experience During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    My content explains what my life was like during the last seven months of the Covid-19 pandemic and how it affected my life both positively and negatively. It also explains what it was like when I graduated from High School and how I want the future generations to remember the Class of 2020. Class assignment, Western Civilization (Dr. Marino).

  4. PDF The Impact of Covid-19 on Student Experiences and Expectations

    experienced an average decrease of 11.5 hours of work per week and a 21% decrease in weekly earnings, arnings for 52% of the sample, which again re ects s. variation in the e ects of COVID-19 across students. In terms of labor market expectations, on average, students foresee a 13 percentage points decrease in.

  5. How to Write About Coronavirus in a College Essay

    Writing About COVID-19 in College Essays. Experts say students should be honest and not limit themselves to merely their experiences with the pandemic. The global impact of COVID-19, the disease ...

  6. My Experience as a College Student During COVID-19

    My first two thoughts were mixtures of empathetic concern and selfish relief— "I'm glad I did my study abroad in the fall" and "It must be really tough to be a college senior this year ...

  7. Coronavirus: My Experience During the Pandemic

    The coronavirus is a virus that originated in China, reached the U.S. and eventually spread all over the world by January of 2020. The common symptoms of the virus include shortness of breath, chills, sore throat, headache, loss of taste and smell, runny nose, vomiting and nausea. As it has been established, it might take up to 14 days for the ...

  8. Writing about COVID-19 in a college admission essay

    Students working on college admission essays often struggle to figure out how to write about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. For students applying to college using the CommonApp, there are several different places where students and counselors can address the pandemic's impact. The different sections have differing goals.

  9. Students Describe Their Pandemic Experience in Six-Word Memoirs

    Inspired by "The Pandemic in Six-Word Memoirs," an Opinion piece by Larry Smith, the creator of Six-Word Memoirs, we challenged students to capture their experiences over the last 19 months in ...

  10. Being a student during COVID-19

    A new online exhibition of photos explores the student experience of life and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 has profoundly impacted so many aspects of our lives. There have been mass job losses, emptied supermarket shelves, mandatory social distancing and educational institutions have closed their doors.

  11. COVID-19 Lockdown: My Experience

    After a while, the reality of the situation started to sink in. The novelty of being at home wore off and I started to struggle. I suffered from regular panic attacks, frozen on the floor in my room, unable to move or speak. I had nightmares most nights, and struggled to sleep. It was as if I was stuck, trapped in my house and in my own head.

  12. 'When Normal Life Stopped': College Essays Reflect a Turbulent Year

    Nora, a student at the High School of American Studies at Lehman College in New York, was always "a serial dabbler," but found commitment in a common pandemic hobby. In March, when normal life ...

  13. Covid-19's Impact on Students' Academic and Mental Well-Being

    Covid-19's Impact on Students' Academic and Mental Well-Being. The pandemic has revealed—and exacerbated—inequities that hold many students back. Here's how teachers can help. The pandemic has shone a spotlight on inequality in America: School closures and social isolation have affected all students, but particularly those living in ...

  14. One Student's Perspective on Life During a Pandemic

    Tiana Nguyen. Tiana Nguyen '21 is a Hackworth Fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. She is majoring in Computer Science, and is the vice president of Santa Clara University's Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) chapter. The world has slowed down, but stress has begun to ramp up. In the beginning of quarantine, as the world ...

  15. How to Write About the Impact of the Coronavirus in a College Essay

    That doesn't mean the pandemic experience has to be ignored if applicants feel the need to write about it. Writing About Coronavirus in Main and Supplemental Essays. Students can choose to write a ...

  16. What Students Are Saying About Living Through a Pandemic

    March 26, 2020. The rapidly-developing coronavirus crisis is dominating global headlines and altering life as we know it. Many schools worldwide have closed. In the United States alone, 55 million ...

  17. The impact of COVID-19 on student experiences and expectations

    Regarding the impact of the pandemic on major choice, students who report that COVID-19 impacted their major choice were more likely to be in lower-paying majors before the pandemic; mean pre-COVID major-specific annual earnings were $43,053 ($46,943) for students whose major choice was (not) impacted by COVID-19. 9 Impacted students were also ...

  18. The pandemic has had devastating impacts on learning. What ...

    A student wearing a protective mask, attends class on the first day of school, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at St. Lawrence Catholic School in North Miami Beach, Florida, U.S ...

  19. Essays reveal experiences during pandemic, unrest

    The COVID-19 outbreak has had a huge impact on both physical and social well-being of a lot of Americans, including me. Stress has been governing the lives of so many civilians, in particular students and workers. In addition to causing a lack of motivation in my life, quarantine has also brought a wave of anxiety.

  20. 12 moving essays about life during coronavirus

    Read these 12 moving essays about life during coronavirus. Artists, novelists, critics, and essayists are writing the first draft of history. A woman wearing a face mask in Miami. Alissa Wilkinson ...

  21. Grit and academic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic

    In this paper, we show that an individual non-cognitive skill, grit, can predict how large of a performance loss the student would experience due to the pandemic.

  22. Lived experiences of medical students of online learning: lessons for

    The findings can be broadly reported under the headings of overall impact of pandemic on medical education, advantages and disadvantages of the lockdown, advantages and disadvantages of online learning, strategies adopted by the teachers to enhance online learning experiences, strategies adopted by the students and student's opinions on what ...

  23. 12 Ideas for Writing Through the Pandemic With The New York Times

    Publishing Opportunity: Submit your final essay to our Student Editorial Contest, open to middle school and high school students ages 10-19, until April 21. Please be sure to read all the rules ...

  24. Personal Experience With the COVID-19 Pandemic

    The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many areas of individuals' daily living. The vulnerability to any epidemic depends on a person's social and economic status. Some people with underlying medical conditions have succumbed to the disease, while others with stronger immunity have survived (Cohut para.6). Governments have restricted movements ...

  25. The world hasn't hit the brakes on methane emissions

    The world has not hit the brakes on methane emissions, a powerful driver of climate change. More than 150 nations have pledged to slash by 30% this decade under a global methane pledge, but new ...