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Anonymous Oral History, 2020/09/18

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Title (Dublin Core)

Anonymous Oral History, 2020/09/18

Description (Dublin Core)

This is an interview that I did with a fellow Northeastern student about the pandemic.

Recording Date (Dublin Core)

09/18/2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Belle Mandjes

Partner (Dublin Core)

Northeastern University

Type (Dublin Core)

Interview

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--Universities
English Recreation & Leisure
English Health & Wellness

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

college
student
testing
contact tracing
Boston
Massachusetts
quarantine
social distancing

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

09/20/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

11/21/2020
04/13/2021
07/24/2023

Interviewer (Bibliographic Ontology)

Belle Mandjes

Interviewee (Bibliographic Ontology)

Anonymous

Location (Omeka Classic)

Boston
Massachusetts
United States of America

Format (Dublin Core)

mp3 audio

Language (Dublin Core)

English

Duration (Omeka Classic)

00:01:09

abstract (Bibliographic Ontology)

This an interview conducted by Belle Mandjes which asks an Anonymous Northeastern student their thoughts about college and quarantine. The student interviewee comments on Northeastern University practices that include testing and contact tracing. They also speak about what it’s like to be a college student, including the difficulties of quarantining teenagers and college-aged people.

Transcription (Omeka Classic)

ANS 0:01
So I've definitely expressed to my friends that I wasn't okay with doing certain things, or that I couldn't come to things hanging out inside and stuff like that, even though they definitely, there was a little bit of pushback, because you know, I think, because we are teenagers and we tend to be a little impulsive and just want to have fun and stuff. So it was really hard just saying, like, “No, I can't come tonight, this isn't safe.” But I feel like I never tried to stop them because I felt like it was pointless, you know? They're just gonna keep doing what they want to do.

Belle Mandjes 0:30
How do you feel about being at college during the pandemic?

ANS 0:34
I actually feel like Northeastern has taken a lot of precautions that other universities just like simply can't, you know? Northeastern has a lot of resources, and they put a lot of time and money into testing and contact tracing. So I think, even though it's not perfect, and obviously there are still COVID cases and possibilities for students to create COVID clusters at colleges, as they've been doing, I think we're as safe as we can be here.

Belle Mandjes 1:02
Well, thank you so much for speaking with me.

ANS 1:06
No problem. You're welcome.

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This item was submitted on September 20, 2020 by Belle Mandjes using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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