Damn COVID, making all my classes go online. Since week 2, everything has been online and while I can’t really fault the university’s response, it’s been a pretty bad time overall.

All my subjects have moved their lecturers to pre-recorded ones. In some cases the lectures from the previous years were used. Some of my tutes were moved to online calls while others were moved to worksheets to move through in our own time and to submit by a given date. I think I had only 3 hours of anything resembling face to face classes a week. And that was down from nearly 20. Its really a poor substitute for what normally happens.

What really sucks is that I find I learn best from interacting with people, talking after lectures and during tutes. This whole learning online thing removes that aspect from the whole university experience. I mean, I can teach myself from a book, its just that I find it to be a greatly inferior experience.

Its been a pretty poor substitute for a normal semester. Pretty much everyone lost motivation about halfway through and lots of people are thinking of deferring next semester if its online, which its looking increasingly likely. To be honest, I’d look at deferring if it weren’t my last semester and if I had something to do. Its all a big mess.

It’s looking like next semester will be pretty similar. With any luck, it will be a bit better as there’s been a semester to get most of the kinks in the system sorted out. Who knows. All I know is that I just need to get through it.