It’s definitely interesting being a college student in the middle of all of this right now. The one thing that we are expected to focus on is school. What if we can’t focus?
When emails pour in about work that needs to be done, they always start with the same lines: “It’s easy to be stressed or anxious during this time,” “in these uncertain times,” “I hope everyone is staying positive,” and then it leads to an addition assignment or expectation that needs to be met. What if I can’t meet it?
It’s the lack of motivation, the lack of seeing school as something of importance when I haven’t seen my mom in two weeks because she’s the head of a respiratory department at a hospital. It’s hard to see the importance of school when people are dying, but it’s also hard to find the balance between allowing yourself to feel sad and angry and scared, and then calm and motivated enough to do school work.
In other news, life without sports sucks. It sucks even more this week with the news of the passing of former Bruin and present Oiler Colby Cave, who was only 25. Times like these are hard as it is, but I couldn’t imagine what his wife and family are going through right now.
So that’s where I’m at. I’ve been thinking about Cave a lot, and talking about him with my dad. It’s all we can really do right now.
Emma Needham 