What can I say? The main thing that’s been occupying my mind recently is school! And can you blame me? My class is having such an odd start to college life. As taxing as it may seem right now, though, I know that it will make us better and stronger in the end.
At Agnes Scott, we’re conducting our semester fully online. We don’t have studying in the library, meals in the cafeteria, nor face-to-face conversations. We do have face-to-screen-to-screen-to-face conversations, though! I know, it’s not the same… In fact, I feel like that’s the hardest part of this for me. It’s so much harder to push myself out of my comfort zone and talk to anyone and everyone about anything and everything when I’m so far from everybody.
There are a lot of things that can inhibit us, students, this semester. I think it’s important to recognize for ourselves, though, that we want this and we’re willing to work hard for it! We did get into one of the best liberal arts colleges in the country, right?
My mind finds it easy to focus on the negatives and to slow myself down with that kind of mentality. Instead, we can all focus on the positives and what we can appreciate!–individually, and collectively. We can remember that–yeah!–this is a hard time, but what doesn’t kill us absolutely makes us stronger.
