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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm trying to wrap my mind around what the "campus experience" is really going to be like end of August.

Students will be moving their stuff into dorms (while masked); we parents won't be moving them in (stay out of the dorms).

Students might not have a roommate as part or de densifying.  So they are alone in their rooms (could be good or bad)

Freshman meetings -- Hey how are you?   Nice to meet you -- not really happening right?  If happening, they happen outdoors in good weather -- masked -- 3-6 feet apart.   Wave to each other.

Dorm Pizza night -- not happening.  No lounges (converted to rooms)   Maybe set up tables outside and everyone eat pizza, have some ice cream?  (Standing far apart from each other because of no masks).

Go back to your dorm room; fire up the computer and start logging in to Zoom meetings; attend classes almost all online,  maybe one class in person.

Time for lunch -- head to the meal hall and pick up a grab and go sandwich.   Time for dinner -- head to the meal hall and pick up a grab and go dinner.   Or sit at a table all by yourself far away from everyone else, with plexiglass between you and the others?

And then... probably in early October maybe earlier ... the state county or town is shut down again because out of control COVID.   Students have to SIP in their dorm rooms basically.   No contact with outside world?   Or go back home if they can?

It just doesn't sound like a good experience.[/quote]
Honestly, it’s better than 3 months stuck at home in your room, with zoom your only connection to peers (which was spring experience.) Sure, this fall should start better at home than during stay- at-home orders, but all of the HS friends are going to be focused on their own college experiences, not clinging to remnants of a senior year that flopped. If college finances or health issues are a concern for a family, staying home makes sense. But otherwise, we are going to make the best of a bad situation.[/quote]

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