I think it goes without saying, things have changed a lot in the past few weeks. We are living in unprecedented times. Universities, retailers, restaurants, all closed. Chapel Hill now feels like a ghost town. We’ve all had to make changes in our schedules and routines. As a person who finds comfort in routine, the past couple weeks have been tough.
During a normal week, I spend countless hours working in various coffee shops around Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Normally, if I’m not sleeping, I’m not home. Learning to work from home has been a big challenge. It’s hard to stay focused when I’m always two feet away from Netflix and the fridge. Having a cat who like to sit on your computer doesn’t help either (pictured below).
Figuring out how to do school work from home has definitely been difficult, but I’ve managed. For me the hardest part of the current situation is being out of a job. I work as a bartender, and the restaurant I work in closed a couple weeks ago for the foreseeable future. But knowing that staying home is quite literally saving peoples lives, I know I can get through this.
I hate to complain about my situation when I am safe and healthy and there are people out there still working every day, risking their own lives to help others. My family works in healthcare and they have been working around the clock to do everything they can to get through this. Seeing doctors and nurses put the lives of other people first is truly selfless and is part of what inspires me to go into medicine. I can only hope that everyone else is out there doing their part by staying home so life can go back to normal, sooner rather than later.
Microbiology by Madeline 