Navigating Covid and School as an Out-of-State Student
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Title
Navigating Covid and School as an Out-of-State Student
Description
Navigating a pandemic has been hard on everyone. Navigating a global pandemic as a student is hard with the separation from your usual group of classmates and professors as well as being taken away from the normal classroom atmosphere. This pandemic has complicated the student experience enough, however, out-of-state students have a different experience then the students who live in close proximity to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus. Most students have had similar experiences with virtually attending class and being stuck at home. Out-of-state students have struggled with different hardships then those close to campus. While the pandemic has caused a feeling of loneliness amongst everyone, out-of-state students are struggling with a disconnection from the rest of the student body due to being so far away from everyone as well as, for some, never having even visited the campus.
These students have had to figure out how to get home at a moment’s notice during the beginning of the pandemic, as well as had to navigate doing schoolwork in an environment that they are not used to conducting schoolwork and attending class in. Some out-of-state students chose to move to Milwaukee despite the majority virtual classes in hope or expectation that classes would be able to move to in-person meetings with the right safety precautions. For those out-of-state students that either chose to move to Milwaukee at the beginning of the Fall 2020 semester or had to due to some in-person classes, the pandemic changed the usual moving experience and the experience of living in Milwaukee.
The items in this collection were chosen to show the impact of the pandemic on a group of students that may not be as represented or acknowledged when discussing the impact that the pandemic has had on college students. The pandemic has brought different stressors and circumstances to consider to these students, some that local students or at least students who do not live too far away from the campus, have had to consider.
The goal of this collection is to document the different ways that the Coronavirus pandemic has impacted out-of-state students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
These students have had to figure out how to get home at a moment’s notice during the beginning of the pandemic, as well as had to navigate doing schoolwork in an environment that they are not used to conducting schoolwork and attending class in. Some out-of-state students chose to move to Milwaukee despite the majority virtual classes in hope or expectation that classes would be able to move to in-person meetings with the right safety precautions. For those out-of-state students that either chose to move to Milwaukee at the beginning of the Fall 2020 semester or had to due to some in-person classes, the pandemic changed the usual moving experience and the experience of living in Milwaukee.
The items in this collection were chosen to show the impact of the pandemic on a group of students that may not be as represented or acknowledged when discussing the impact that the pandemic has had on college students. The pandemic has brought different stressors and circumstances to consider to these students, some that local students or at least students who do not live too far away from the campus, have had to consider.
The goal of this collection is to document the different ways that the Coronavirus pandemic has impacted out-of-state students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Creator
Emily N. Demler
Date
Spring 2021
Contributor
Emily N. Demler
Collection Items
UWM Notification of CARES Act
An email from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sent to students regarding applying for student financial aid through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act scent in the Spring of 2020. This email shows the recipient…
Early March 2020: University Housing - Housing Will Stay Open
Email from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Housing stating that housing was not closing. Spring break was being extended an extra week with remote instruction to follow, however housing stated that residents did not have anything to worry about.…
UWM University Housing Email Notifying the Closing of University Housing
An email from UWM Housing regarding the closing of university housing sent one week after the email stating that housing would not be closing.
“I understand that it's a pandemic and things change, but a lot happened in a short period of time.…
“I understand that it's a pandemic and things change, but a lot happened in a short period of time.…
Sent Back Home to Minnesota due to University Housing Closing March 2020
A photograph of the landscape surrounding Alexis’s hometown in rural Northern Minnesota. University Housing closing caused her to be forced to go back home while still finishing her spring classes online. She would go on hikes as a break from the…
UWM Student Vaccination
As an out of state student from Indiana, I did not know when I would be able to receive the vaccine due not being in my home state where my regular doctor is. I had no clue if they would allow for out of state students to get the vaccine in…
Out-of-State Student's home office for virtual classes
Homeown: Wildwood, Missouri
"I accepted my offer to the anthropology master’s program at UWM during the midst of a global pandemic. Not only that, but I had also just graduated with my bachelor’s degrees from the University of Missouri while sitting…
"I accepted my offer to the anthropology master’s program at UWM during the midst of a global pandemic. Not only that, but I had also just graduated with my bachelor’s degrees from the University of Missouri while sitting…
Out-of-state student adopts dog to combat feeling of loneliness
While some out-of-state students chose to make the move to Milwaukee either out of hope that the university would offer in person classes or for other reasons, those that chose not to make the move to Milwaukee and attend their classes from their…
UWM Kenilworth Sign Up for Move Out
Despite things looking up with people finally being able to get vaccinated, precautions still need to take place with covid still proving an issue. With the semester ending, UWM’s Kenilworth apartments will have tons of students moving out to go home…
Oral History Interview with Alexis Ingebretsen
This oral history interview is with Alexis Ingebretsen, an out-of-state, UWM student, from a small town in Northern Minnesota. Alexis was a senior when the pandemic first hit and a super senior during this current 2020-2021 school year. Her account…