Interview 073 with Lauren W

Black America and Covid by Sonja J Killebrew

Episode notes

Listen to Caribbean-American Lauren W. of Queens, New Yorkwhose parents are from the island of Jamaicashare about going to school in Washington D.C. during the Covid-19 pandemic. She talks about moving back home in the spring of 2020 during her sophomore year of university. She did her junior year online from her home in New York and she returned to D.C. for her senior year in 2022.

On distance-learning during the pandemic:

“I think I learned more in person. I think the interesting part was like, I guess was the will to learn, because I feel like for me like I could pass my classes and do well in my classes. But, then am I retaining any of the information past the end of the class? So, I feel like that was harder in zoom-era, because it was just like, okay, I have to do this ... 

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