XC: Covid and College

The Covid pandemic has disrupted global human civilization. But how has it disrupted you? It can be therapeutic to spend a little bit of time reflecting on how your life has changed in the past few weeks and to think about how you might best move forward in the face of great uncertainty.

This is an extra credit assignment. It will be graded on a scale of 0 - 100 points depending upon the quality of the essay. In your essay, discuss how Covid has impacted upon your life as a college student. You can discuss anything of importance to you; here are some potential topics:

• What has changed in your daily routine?
• What additional family, community, or work obligations you are taking on?
• How has Covid impacted your ability to learn, not just in ICS 314, but also in any of your other classes?
• What new things have you learned about yourself, your family, your friends, and your community?
• What changes do you think you need to make in order to move forward successfully?

Submission Instructions

By the time and date indicated on the Schedule page, write a technical essay regarding this module. You can use the issues above as a starting point, but write a stand-alone essay: don’t just answer them like it’s a homework assignment! Once you’ve finished the essay submit it using Laulima.

Please note the following:

• Your submission should be a URL providing a direct link to your essay (not a link to the home page of your portfolio, nor a link to the essays directory page). If the link does not work, you will not get credit for your essay.

• An entry for your essay must also appear in the Essays page of your portfolio. Check this before submission. If it is not listed, it’s probably because your YAML front matter is incorrect. See the Essay Content section of the TechFolio documentation for details.

• Be sure that your essay is ready for evaluation before submitting it via Laulima. I often click on the link as soon as I receive the submission. If the essay is empty or only partially complete when I click on the link, you might not receive credit.

• Be sure that your essay satisfies all of the criteria in the Technical Essay Style Guide. You should click in this link and review the guidelines each time before submission.

• Your essay must be original content, written during this semester reflecting your current views and writing style. You cannot submit essays that you wrote previously for this assignment. The purpose of this assignment is for you to practice writing right now, this semester.

Finally, please post your completed essay to the #covid channel on Slack so that everyone in the class can learn about your challenges. (You will need to join this channel to post.)