My least favorite class used to meet for hours on end but now the lectures are cancelled and I have so much more free time. I feel like I can actually be productive and efficient for this class and my others. My motivation is better because now I can take ownership of my own work. There were some personalities I was working with before who I really didn’t agree with, and it’s refreshing to have that separation.
My dad gave me a few dimes each week. For a whole semester, I didn’t buy any romantic novels. I didn’t eat snacks. I didn’t spend them on shuttlecocks like all the other kids. At the very last day, I spent them all. I remember that was 2 cents. Big number at that time. For me. Do you know what I got? I subscribed a whole year of Mathematics Newspaper.
When I was in secondary and high school, I didn’t think about what I want to do in the future at all. I only know that going to college is the way to go. To the city, and change my fate of becoming a peasant. I dared to dream about what I can do only after I got into college. For rural kids, the only possible way to change identity in the past was to study. But now as long as you have some talent, some nerve, nothing illegal, you may achieve it. The nation has changed.
Something interesting is that so many schools have insisted that almost all classes have to be on campus which has actually caused large limitations for the disabled community. This pandemic has shown not only is it possible but rather easy to have classes online. I’m hoping after this more universities and colleges open up to more online options, so that those of us who can’t physically attend can have the same access and opportunities as everyone else.
