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Life During COVID-19

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Hello there, my name is Devon,

I am a Student Senate Treasurer, a part-time teacher, and someone who has been at NCC for a long time. This is my second degree at NCC, and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. But boy this semester is really testing me. This has been an interesting couple of weeks, hasn't it? It's hard to believe we have not been on campus in 2 weeks. I honestly think I took campus life for granted before all of this. I miss seeing all the smiling (and sometimes not so smiling) faces walking around campus. I miss being able to have face to face conversations with classmates and professors when it comes to classwork and assignments. And I really miss being able to spend time with the rest of the student senate execs. 

I am beyond grateful for being healthy right now, having a roof over my head, and having food in my kitchen. You really do not realize just how much privilege you have until something like this happens and you suddenly can not visit the people who you love, go shopping, or even go to college. How crazy is it that for some, it takes a global pandemic to realize how much they really have. We always are going so fast we don't take time to smell the roses, (trust me I'm so incredibly guilty of this) so when we do get to or have to sit at home and do nothing else you get the time to spend with your family, or even the time to spend with yourself.

Moving online has been a seriously hard thing for me to work with. I teach part-time as well as my classes, which are both completely online and rely on zoom and google classroom. As someone who struggles with ADD, this is especially hard because there are so many other things my brain would rather be doing than focusing on the computer for lengthy amounts of time.

I hope you all are doing well during this crazy stressful time! 
I'll leave you with this cute picture of my cat:

Devon Venne
Student Senate Treasurer

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