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Three-Quarters of Enrolled Students Are Zooming From Ithaca This Fall
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About 75 percent of enrolled students are studying in Ithaca, and the University saw a decrease to 97 percent of its target enrollment.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/zoom/page/2/)
About 75 percent of enrolled students are studying in Ithaca, and the University saw a decrease to 97 percent of its target enrollment.
With over two-thirds of classes online, teaching assistants have faced major adjustments.
Even during a normal college semester, Cornell students struggle to take care of their mental health, caught between endless projects, exams and papers.
Teaching classes through Zoom has also had an effect on professors’ mental health and wellbeing.
Without typical college experiences, community and connection are harder than usual, despite efforts to hold virtual events.
Every time I leave a Zoom meeting, I’m left with an acute sense of emptiness. There’s no satisfaction or relief derived from getting through a lecture without falling asleep. No lingering sense of happiness that usually comes from catching up with a friend. With a single click, I’m thrust back into the stark silence of my room — a silence that only reminds me how much of an illusion these on-screen interactions really are. Think about it: At the most basic level, we’re conversing with an amalgam of pixels that either form people’s out-of-focus faces or black boxes with some white letters on them.
I’m spending the month of October in Michigan, a key swing state among a small cohort sure to decide both the presidential election and control of the Senate. While this is the priority I chose to set for myself this semester, I remain enrolled as an online student taking a full credit load at Cornell. The readings are immersive and the lectures are informative. Given that most of my peers living in Ithaca have only one or two in-person courses, the class component of my education this semester is not too dissimilar to theirs. Still, without the ability to study in groups, engage in free-flowing conversation and take full advantage of university facilities, a pressing truth becomes clear: This is not worth the money.
With the fall semester in full swing, professors attempt to enforce unconventional proctoring procedures for prelims.
After ClubFest, clubs continued to recruit online.
In the face of a fall semester riddled with the restrictions of COVID-19, Cornell’s clubs and organizations are facing a season of virtual recruitment, auditions, tryouts and meetings.