Academic Talk in Time of CoViD Pandemic

      I would like to emphasize the point that while I was doing the thinking of seriously writing the contents of this blog, it exhausts me to the core. 

     This year is a no joke show. Everything changed and that includes the school system. Starting from the opening of classes during the pandemic to the end of this academic year seems like walking through surface waters. Impossible but impossibly we made it. Confusing, right? Yeah, that's how I would definitely describe this academic year as well as this talk. 

     Education through the use of online platforms is not advisable if we can easily resort to a face to face classroom. But then, here we are, history found us. COVID is the real sht. We were loaded with piles of paper works in our table and not having the courage to answer all of it is real. We sign in our accounts on google classroom to upload files that were answered through the help of coursehero or brainly.com is also real. Add the fact that we have to avoid plagiarism but answer sheets/activities given to us are plagiarized itself. It is also unbelievably real that we have to pay for school laboratories when we are not even in the face to face mode of learning. The increase of tuition is real. Instructors giving us another activity with loads of papers still unfinished is incredibly real. Performance task in google meet is also real! What's even real is the fact that we will still deal with it in the next years to come. 

      On the other side, despite all the exhausting remarks, rants, and sleepless nights, there's Tiktok. I get it, I don't use Tiktok but somehow there's an unfathomable feeling within me that's shouting Tiktok is a depressant. It's like coffee in the cold morning. And that's what makes the pandemic memorable. Despite the exhausting and depressing state, we have a refuge. This is what makes trying times one for the books because it allows us to blend with the world and eventually learn to adjust with it. 

     We learn a lot about ourselves. We learn what there is that needs to be done. We absorb varied perspective. We learn that still, there is hope in hopeless cases. The academic year is not easy as 1 2 3. It is not as familiar as the back of my hands. But I can continue. Because it is in those who persevere that great things will follow. 

     The truth is I am here to tell you that we should continue. I  am not trying to invalidate your struggles but it is all the more reason why we should fight because we will win. So do your thing and continue. While we breathe, we hope.