So my typical school day, because of COVID, I mainly decided just to do online classes, that way I could pick and choose my schedule rather than mostly having Zoom classes. Most of my classes are online but when I have time, I just do mostly my school work.
They are live.
Some of them are understandable but they lack those regular classroom opportunities to ask questions and everything.
Usually, I'll either email them or I'll wait until the classes are over after everybody leaves so I can have an actual conversation with them.
This year I surprisingly have had really good opportunities with professors on getting back to me pretty soon. I mean usually within a couple of hours if it's within the school day.
Yeah surprisingly
I haven't really worried about that so much. The times that I have, they put us into groups and so that is how I can communicate with them. I do have one upcoming assignment for that so I'm guessing it's just going to be a Google Doc that we’re just going to have to fill in the different answers rather than collaborating.
It’s pretty quiet and awkward.
Yeah, it sucks. It's that and the teacher isn’t actually in there supervising, so some students will take it as a time to sit and do nothing.
I was never really into the party crowd. I mean I was just mainly hanging out with a couple of friends so it hasn't changed immensely, but I do know that people from different campuses across the U.S. have been kind of struggling with that or that it's affecting the sororities.
So they mainly recommended going on campus and they have a tool called Seats where you can reserve your spot on campus if you don't have Wi-Fi connection. You can go there but as far as computer services, I haven't really heard anything besides tech support over Zoom if you have any technological problems. My Wi-Fi at home is kind of spotty but other than that I haven't had any problems.
I don't know if they necessarily have done it because of COVID but they have online resources posted to their Canvas website but it's kind of just similar to what I’ve seen in the classroom setting.
There was one online class that I ended up dropping because it was just purely reading the textbook and then reading a supplementary article. I dropped it because I felt like it hadn't been transmitted properly because it wasn't actually teaching anybody in the class. So other than that I mean the material has been pretty simple.
There's one of them that's been having issues with the audio but I think that's just something we need to bring up more and it's also people not using their mics. I just think the teacher needs to be brought aware that it's his problem.
I kind of go off my notifications and go on Canvas every day so I don't really have to deal with that necessarily.
I honestly think that this has just kind of opened my eyes that I like online learning a little bit better just because I have time to organize everything myself. So I think I'm pretty good about organizing my time well, I just kind of figure it out week-by-week based on my schedule.
I would say it's about even.
I've actually helped other people when they ask questions through Zoom.
I mean it just kind of gives me freedom to actually work and make my own schedule, that's amazing. I really like that about online learning, and other than that, I guess classes in-person kind of intimidated me and made me nervous whereas this one, there is more of a boundary.