“I fought off the virus several months ago but was almost floored by the news that the last semesters of my college years would be remote and online. We were told that we would have to miss commencement as screeching headlines and “breaking news” reports, rumors – as well as bad and fake news – about rogue variants and flawed vaccines taunted us about our survival” – By WORD reporter Anissa Zibo.
After Hunter announced plans for remote learning and shut down its campuses, there were days I sat in the window of the second-floor apartment I share with my roommates in Queens and watched the M trains pass by. For me the world was at a halt and the trains were the small glimpses that life was still happening outside my apartment.
Article by Chloe Williams
Despite news reports of more than 500,000 dead and blazing headline threats of escalating virus mutations sweeping across hot spots in America like a biblical plague at the time I was wrapping up my final draft for this article, this semester at Hunter been more relaxed and laid back for me and students I know, especially seniors who want to graduate this June, writes Niamh McAuliffe. Why? “It’s all about the Zoom.”