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Pennacchio-Harrington: Advice From a Remote Freshman
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Pennacchio-Harrington: Advice From a Remote Freshman

As I said earlier, the key to college is finding balance. And with the right planning, you can find that you have enough time to enjoy both the deep, interesting discussions in your Ecology and Evolution review on Thursdays and the joyous occasion of Facetime Fridays with a friend who lives 2,576 miles away. 

Carter: Government’s Mismanagement of COVID-19 Causes Ordinary People to Fall More Behind
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Carter: Government’s Mismanagement of COVID-19 Causes Ordinary People to Fall More Behind

The government’s mismanagement of priorities and dysfunction within its coronavirus response has resulted in extreme hardship for much of the everyday population, and without serious reflection on how to help people to survive these difficult times, many more people will die preventable deaths, suffer from extreme stress, and lose out on valuable early education.

Girardot: BC and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
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Girardot: BC and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

Columnist Doug Girardot writes that in their reopening rhetoric, BC officials did everything in their effort to downplay the realities of college life in a pandemic. The flurry of summer emails students received in their inboxes and the maroon and gold technocratic signage littered throughout campus have suggested a conditional promise of normalcy: If you do all these things, then we can have school just like usual. But this is a dangerously fantastical apodosis.

Freshman Year, Covid-19 Edition
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Freshman Year, Covid-19 Edition

College is hard. Like, really hard. The freshman experience feels more like the freshman experiment this year, and it’s hard to keep up. College moves at twice the speed that high school does, and no matter how much anyone warns you, nothing will fully prepare you for the takeoff.  Navigating Canvas makes me feel like...
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