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What is it like working from home?
Personally, I feel the most unproductive when working from home. While it is arguably "easier", there is a distinct lack of focus on my assignments and other school work. Thanks to it being senior year, I don't get much to begin with, but it's less enjoyable than actually being in school. Schoolwork, now more than ever, feels like a chore that I have to do but never gets done until absolutely necessary. Even now writing this blog, it's 9 PM and I could've very easily started it hours before. Instead, I get distracted by random Youtube videos that provide nothing to my life; I can only watch so many Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares clips before I've practically seen them all. If I get distracted by friends during class time, it at least feels like I had some fun.
How is what you're learning applied to any other classes/the world around you?
What's going on right now reminds me of our first unit about the Apocalypse. Obviously, most of us (or at least we should be) are sitting at home, waiting for this to be over. Yet, there are key similarities between how the events of the world and how we've seen apocalypses play out through literature. For one, the world has collectively suffered, even without the virus, thanks to events like the Australian wildfires and locust swarms in East Africa (which are both strangely reminiscent of the Revelations) It seems that the world is throwing us curveball after curveball and we're stuck in the bleachers watching. Of course, we've also seen people behaving as they would in an apocalypse, with the many, many accounts of people hoarding toilet paper and other supplies. We've seen the "every man for himself" mentality in The Road, where the father constantly discourages his son from helping others in case they turn on him. Thankfully, that mentality is slowly going away as people realize that buying 300 rolls of toilet paper wasn't exactly smart.
Your own personal feelings and thoughts about what's happening right now. I think that it can be hard to truly understand the severity of the virus until it's affected someone close to you. My neighbor across the street, who I've known my entire life, died three weeks ago and it's still weird to process he died because of the virus. For those anti-lockdown protestors in Denver, it could seem like your freedoms are being taken away when there have "only" been less than 10k cases in a state full of nearly 6 million people, but there's a reason the lockdown is in place. I think the most frustrating thing is that the number of cases we have could've easily been lowered if we had better preventative measures in place. Now, schools are closed for the rest of the school year and colleges are questioning if they'll even be able to open for the fall semester, which is definitely not the way I would've expected my senior year and transition into college to have gone.
Personally, I feel the most unproductive when working from home. While it is arguably "easier", there is a distinct lack of focus on my assignments and other school work. Thanks to it being senior year, I don't get much to begin with, but it's less enjoyable than actually being in school. Schoolwork, now more than ever, feels like a chore that I have to do but never gets done until absolutely necessary. Even now writing this blog, it's 9 PM and I could've very easily started it hours before. Instead, I get distracted by random Youtube videos that provide nothing to my life; I can only watch so many Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares clips before I've practically seen them all. If I get distracted by friends during class time, it at least feels like I had some fun.
How is what you're learning applied to any other classes/the world around you?
What's going on right now reminds me of our first unit about the Apocalypse. Obviously, most of us (or at least we should be) are sitting at home, waiting for this to be over. Yet, there are key similarities between how the events of the world and how we've seen apocalypses play out through literature. For one, the world has collectively suffered, even without the virus, thanks to events like the Australian wildfires and locust swarms in East Africa (which are both strangely reminiscent of the Revelations) It seems that the world is throwing us curveball after curveball and we're stuck in the bleachers watching. Of course, we've also seen people behaving as they would in an apocalypse, with the many, many accounts of people hoarding toilet paper and other supplies. We've seen the "every man for himself" mentality in The Road, where the father constantly discourages his son from helping others in case they turn on him. Thankfully, that mentality is slowly going away as people realize that buying 300 rolls of toilet paper wasn't exactly smart.
Your own personal feelings and thoughts about what's happening right now. I think that it can be hard to truly understand the severity of the virus until it's affected someone close to you. My neighbor across the street, who I've known my entire life, died three weeks ago and it's still weird to process he died because of the virus. For those anti-lockdown protestors in Denver, it could seem like your freedoms are being taken away when there have "only" been less than 10k cases in a state full of nearly 6 million people, but there's a reason the lockdown is in place. I think the most frustrating thing is that the number of cases we have could've easily been lowered if we had better preventative measures in place. Now, schools are closed for the rest of the school year and colleges are questioning if they'll even be able to open for the fall semester, which is definitely not the way I would've expected my senior year and transition into college to have gone.
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