This week I’m going to write about how online classes are going, and how I feel about them. For starters, although it may seem like us students have a lot more time on our hands, we are also balancing many other things like living at home and learning remotely with family around always bugging us, not having the same resources available, oh and struggling with a national pandemic that is causing many people a lot of health issues and anxiety. Many of my professors start all their emails out with “I know this is a very stressful time for all of us” and then proceed with a to do list for the week of about 20 different tasks, since we have “more time on our hands”. This has really ticked me off not gonna lie, like we shouldn’t be given more work than we would have had on campus or be held to the same standards while teaching ourselves. I understand professors are stuck at home teaching their children and trying to balance their lives as well, and they seem to always say how stressful it must be for us students but then continue to add on to the stress. I’m just very unhappy with how it is going, especially since we aren’t given the same resources but are paying the same amount in tuition to not even have classes being tough by professors, and having to learn everything on our own. I am happy they put in place a pass/fail grading system though. I have heard rumors about potentially not going back to school in the fall, and I’m really considering taking a semester off then. I’m paying to go out of state to a in person college for more than just the classes but for my friends and the campus experience, and I don’t want to pay the same price to do online classes, and not be able to see my friends or even be taught by my professors. I’m just getting increasingly frustrated with online learning and I’m happy it will be over in two weeks.