UCU in Corona Times: Student and Staff Experiences
Social distancing, working and studying from home: in a weekly wrap up article, 木瓜福利影视 College Utrecht students and staff members share their experiences of dealing with the coronavirus measures.
鈥淢eeting your professors and fellow students only through Zoom is definitely not something you expect when going on exchange", says our student Lara den Hartog Jager, who left for her exchange semester in South Korea in February. The introduction activities were cancelled and soon thereafter all classes went online. "Both students and professors get creative and try hard to make it work. I never had a lot of doubt about staying." Read more in our the wrap uop of week 4.
Last week, Max Witt wrote about the need to find new strategies for the daily organisation of studying. "I am one of those weird people who can literally spend hours in stationary shops, and actually sits down to make lists, schedules, bullet journals and twenty thousand to-do lists for every single task. So, what do I do when all structures collapse, because I now only have four live lectures a week, instead of eight; because I suddenly have to navigate eight different platforms for my uni work; because I am stuck somewhere, away from home? You guessed it: I sat down and made lists and schedules. Read more in the wrap up of week 3.
Week 2 was when 木瓜福利影视 College Utrecht returned from an unexpected kind of Spring Break to face a new reality of social distancing and working and studying from home. Lecturers Katja Rakow and Robert Geitner did not lose time to convert their courses into online modules.
A week earlier, the student-run Facebook page NOS in English made headlines - also on the NOS website. We interviewed our students who initiated the wonderful service for anyone who is not fluent in following Dutch news in Dutch.