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Finishing my Undergraduate Degree during the Pandemic
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Finishing my Undergraduate Degree during the Pandemic
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I was starting the last semester of my undergraduate degree when the pandemic hit the globe. At this time (around March 2020) I was planing to work on my senior honors thesis and happy to start my master's degree in October 2020. But in order to finish my thesis, I had to do some intensive research first: my plan was to visit a big German archive in Berlin and also to do some research in a couple of libraries. But just before I could do so, all German institutions went into lockdown and closed for months due to health precautions. As somebody who studied History and had to visit an archive for my thesis, I felt like I was totally stuck in my academic studies. I felt like it was impossible to finish my studies in the scheduled time, and for months I didn't know how to continue my academic work. Luckily, my university was considerate enough to extend the submission date for my thesis. After a couple of months of not knowing if I could start my master's degree in time (and in general not knowing how my academic and financial future would look like if I didn't finish my undergraduate degree in time) the archives and libraries opened up again, and I could continue my research and finish my thesis.
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text story
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English
Education--Universities
English
Online Learning
English
Conflict
English
Emotion
English
Travel
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
09/09/21
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
09/10/21
05/23/2022
10/10/2023
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This item was submitted on September 9, 2021 by Slađana Mileusnić 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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