Mine was not always very good and so, like many other class participants, I kept my camera off. Some professors were new to the technology, and the quality of the classes and our interactions depended heavily on the internet connection. Online classes were also often less clear than in person.
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I ended up feeling less productive but also not able to fully enjoy my free time. I found it difficult to physically separate my workspace and free time space and that made it challenging to detach from work at the end of the day but also challenging to focus on work during the day. I ended up spending most of my time sitting at my desk on the computer.
I returned to campus, only for the last couple of weeks of the semester. Classes were gradually moved online, and it had not been easy to follow. As the number of COVID-19 cases increased, I moved out of the university campus and, like many international students, went back to my parents’ home in Belgium. In this blog I explore my experiences of COVID-19 through 3 aspects of my life that changed because of the pandemic and lockdown. Covid-19 and university studies I found it difficult to physically separate my workspace and free time space and that made it challenging to detach from work at the end of the dayI began the semester on campus and was working on my bachelor’s thesis when the first lockdown measures were announced. It became very important for me to have access to information and understand what was happening.
I looked at the numbers every day and monitored the COVID-19 “risk zones” in cities. Gradually I became more interested (but also glued to) the incidence plots made available on online. Little was known about the virus in the beginning.
I wondered how my life as a student would change, and how serious the situation was going to be. But with time, as the information got more alarming and governments started to implement regulations, I began to worry and felt confused. Yes, we had to be careful, but I did not expect the situation to reach global proportions. I believed it was like a flu or the seasonal cold. When I first started hearing about COVID-19, I was not very worried.
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I often met up with friends, we had dinner together almost every evening and organised activities such as movie nights, sports, and evenings at open mics and cafes with live performances. I was studying in the Netherlands, and before the lockdown I had a very social life. Here they talk about their experience of COVID-19 as a young person navigating university life in the context of lockdown measures I turned 21 in March 2020, around the time when the COVID-19 lockdowns were set up across Europe. Noé worked as an intern with the Social and Economic Policy Analysis team at the UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight between September 14th, 2022, and March 14th, 2023. Methodological briefs on evidence synthesis.Social protection in humanitarian settings.Gender-responsive & age-sensitive social protection.Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities.Child labour and social protection in Africa.Child labour and education in India and Bangladesh.
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