Oral History Interview with Alexis Ingebretsen

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 of the pandemic includes her experience with university housing closing last year as a Kenilworth Square apartment resident during that time as well as how this 2020-2021 school year has been different from past school years. Her journey back home is an over eight-and-a-half-hour drive, something that made having to move out her apartment at a moment’s notice much more stressful unlike other students who may not live too far away from the school. Alexis talks about what life was like when students were sent home last spring to continue classes remotely. Her account also includes her take on the pandemic as a biomedical science major with an emphasis in public health. She talks about what she hopes stays the same after the pandemic as well as what she hopes is different than what life was like before the pandemic such as people taking being sick more seriously instead of just working through it and wearing masks when sick. Alexis also talks about what she has learned throughout this whole experience and what she would have done differently knowing what she knows now.

Emily Demler, Alexis Ingebretsen

April 30, 2021

Emily N. Demler

Emily N. Demler

Alexis Ingebretsen

Kenilworth Square Apartments