#LifeWithout: Normality
Back in March, when our school closed because of the threat of COVID-19, I don’t think anyone knew how long we’d stay quarantined. I remember the teachers announcing our two-week …
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#LifeWithout: My Family
By Genesis Smith-Lopez Life without family has been hard to adjust to. I went from seeing them multiple times a week to once a month. My family is made up …
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#LifeWithout: Structure
Quarantine has lasted for what feels like forever, and it’s affected every single person in the country differently. I’m lucky in that my life hasn’t changed too drastically over the …
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#LifeWithout: A senior year
Over the past few months, I’ve realized that I had been taking way too much for granted. I thought that by now, I would have been driving into the senior …
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#LifeWithout: My Sister
The biggest thing I had to live without during this pandemic was not being able to see my older sister, Kristina. She lives in Greenville and traveling down to Durham …
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USPS faces Covid-19, election challenges
The postal service has been the main form of sending letters, packages, etc. for over 200 years. They have struggled to keep up with technology, but have managed to do …
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#LifeWithout: Sports
On March 12, 2020 the sports world stopped almost completely. The night before, the NBA announced that they would be suspending play “until further notice”. Over the next couple days, …
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#LifeWithout: Travel
I’d never considered how important travelling is to my daily routine. I’m not talking about trips to the Caribbean or spending a week in Disneyland, but the basic, mundane travel …
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#LifeWithout: Coffee shops
Social distancing has taken a lot of personal comforts and experiences from everyone, and it can be difficult to adjust. One of the things I miss most is studying in …
#LifeWithout: Coffee shops Read More#Coronabreak diaries: Admiring those who give
My grandma, Sherry, she tells everyone that she is “fine” even through her most painful days. She lives by that saying because she’s a woman who wants to spread love …
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Most of us have been sitting at home for over a month now. We’ve all become Zoom and Google Classroom experts, disabled the screen time feature on our phones because …
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Day 564 of quarantine. I haven’t seen the light of day in ages. The sounds of birds, the feel of a cool breeze, just the outside world in general, are …
#Coronabreak diaries: boredom, fear and optimism Read More#Coronabreak diaries: The Prevalence of Ignorance in America
As I watch President Trump’s evening briefings, I hear a lot of nonsense about the US being the best, and how the administration has done everything ‘absolutely perfect’. What I …
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