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A week of Change

Title (Dublin Core)

A week of Change

Description (Dublin Core)

March 2020 came to change everyones lives, March 11th 2020 was our last normal day on campus. Everyone on campus was so confused whether professors were going to cancel class or move it to an online class, some professors had already moved it online and most continued with their normal schedule. Wednesday March 11th, 2020 after my class ended I went back home and as soon as I sat down in my living room I went on my instagram and saw that cuny had posted that all classes were going online for the rest of the semester. For me that day was the beginning of a lot of changes. My dad was already coughing but we didn't think it was covid. That next Monday he stopped working because he didn't feel well, both my brother and I stopped going to school and my mom stopped going to work as well. That week was crazy for us, we went to our Costco near by and bought so many things, canned food to be specific, and toilet paper let's not even go there (toilet paper madness is a whole different story). My mother and I went to our local Mexican supermarket and stocked up on everything we thought we needed, we made like 2 trips with each carrying 3 heavy bags. We had bottled water, 32 toilet paper rolls, 48 eggs, 4 gallons of milk, canned tuna, canned fruit (we didn't get fresh fruit because my parents had heard them say in the news how "the virus can get on the fruit" and if we did get we soaked the fruit and deep washed it after). That week was when our sleep schedule changed, that week we started having zoom meeting instead of in person meetings, that week my dad started getting worse and we couldn't sleep knowing he couldn't breathe properly. That week I still remember clearly. We went to my cousins birthday on Sunday not knowing that was the last time we were going to have a family gathering in a while.
Junior Undergrad Majoring In Psychology

Date (Dublin Core)

March 11, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Self

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HNSC2100

Partner (Dublin Core)

Brooklyn College

Type (Dublin Core)

Text story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Home & Family Life
English Education--Universities

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

quarantine
home life
panic buying
toilet paper
virtual learning
family

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

family experience

Collection (Dublin Core)

College COVID Stories

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

09/30/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/10/2021
05/30/2023

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Covid 19
Brooklyn College

This item was submitted on September 30, 2021 by [anonymous user] using the form “Share Your Story With Us” on the site “Brooklyn College New York”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/brooklyncollege

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