Media:

Interviews:

ID: 01

Age: 21

Major: Ecology

Graduation Date: May 2020

1) Did you/ Do you have a New Year’s resolution? If so, what was/ what is it? And have you kept to it?

Yes, “To not stop running” “And to keep on running”

2) How would you describe your current state of mind?

“Anxious, but reassured in our share unknowing of what’s going to happen next”

3) What are your primary concerns and primary goals during this time?

Goals:

1) To keep running
2) To stay connected with others

Concerns:

1) Finishing school
2) Making money

4) Primary pastime?

-“Making fresh bread and bringing it to the neighbors”
-more social media
-more video games and other entertainment

5) Daily routine changes?

-Exercising more
-sleep schedule shifted to an earlier rise and earlier slumber
-increased drug and alcohol usage
-Decrease in dietary health

6) How do you stay connected?

-Primarily snapchat and instagram
-exchanging food and supplies within neighborhood

7) When did it all change for you? Was it sudden or gradual?

-Walking out of last class
-Senior year in separate places

8) General thoughts?

-“People’s perceptions on things are going to change”
-“I have a more negative outlook on the public response to the pandemic
-“The roads are just as full as before”

-Silver lining is that subject gets to work with their hands by working odd jobs like landscaping

9) 1-3 words describing your overall attitude over the past month?

“Transitional Rest”

ID: 02

Age: 21

Major: Medical Lab Science

Graduation Date: May 2022

1) Did you/ Do you have a New Year’s resolution? If so, what was/ what is it? And have you kept to it?

“No”

2) How would you describe your current state of mind?

-“Uneasy”

-Not sure what’s going to happen next

3) What are your primary concerns and primary goals during this time?

Goals:

1) To pass classes
2) To not starve

Concerns:

1) Finances

4) Primary pastime?

-“Stockholm Syndrome”
-more video games because “there are none of my friends here” so there is more of an “[inclination] to stay home”

-more snapchat

5) Daily routine changes?

-sleep schedule has become erratic

-increased total drug and alcohol usage

-drugs and alcohol used earlier in the day

-Increased hand-washing

-Decreased showering

-More frequent outdoor walks

-Diet is more carb-heavy

-Kept weekly routine of grabbing tacos from Las Palapas to preserve a sense of normalcy

6) How do you stay connected?

-Primarily Snapchat and Instagram

-exchanging food and supplies within neighborhood

-Subject is sending more memes

7) When did it all change for you? Was it sudden or gradual?

-“Once spring break didn’t happen”

8) General thoughts?

-Subject enjoys the biological research aspects of the situation
-Subject enjoys spending more time at home with their pets

9) 1-3 words describing your overall attitude over the past month?

“Bored. Uneasy. Apprehensive.”

ID: 03

Age: 21

Major: Chemistry

Graduation Date: May 2020

1) Did you/ Do you have a New Year’s resolution? If so, what was/ what is it? And have you kept to it?

“No”

2) How would you describe your current state of mind?

-“Pretty variable

– “First few weeks were shitty”

– Felt better as time has gone on

3) What are your primary concerns and primary goals during this time?

Goals:

1) To pass classes
2) To figure out what happens next

Concerns:

1) Unemployment Rate

2) Economy in general

3) Not nearly as concerned about thesis

4) Primary pastime?

-more videogames, especially those played in highschool

-more drugs and alcohol

-more social media

-increase in creative endeavors such as guitar and making lo-fi beats

5) Daily routine changes?

-sleep schedule has become shifted towards later rise/fall

– increase in overall sleep time

-increased total drug and alcohol usage

-drugs and alcohol used earlier in the day

– Overall hygiene, diet, and exercise, have all gone “downhill”

– Increased hand washing particularly

– Been putting on pants and a nice shirt daily to retain sense of normalcy and be productive

6) How do you stay connected?

-Primarily through discord and less so through other social media

-staying connected and even reconnecting with old friends from high school as subject is falling back into old routine from before they went to college

-subject is staying more connected with their significant other during this time. Which is something rather unexpected compared to what their plan was earlier this year

7) When did it all change for you? Was it sudden or gradual?

“The second they cancelled school”

Went from “excited to oh shit in a second”

“everybody is talking about it”

8) General thoughts?

-Subject is “waiting for shit to happen”

9) 1-3 words describing your overall attitude over the past month?

“Fairly relaxed anxiety”

Poetry:

Light as a barrier

forcing it’s way onto the grass

silently- solemnly- weightlessly applying pressure on

wavering blades that blew unencumbered in the night breeze

The light didn’t care of the gentle souls its revealed unruly

The light didn’t care if the natural tustle of furs and sandy particles

rustled under its sullen night

The light didn’t care if it acted like cobble walls on an earthen mound

It did not care for whether its battered dinks and crevices would weather

It did not care for whether its reflections in the eye and refractions in the mind

would weather

It did not care

For the weather was unruly

and its weathering seemed unruly

The light didn’t care of the spectacle it became

The light didn’t care how many of its rocks and barbs remain

Mixing themselves unto shadows and streams of milky moonlight

The light didn’t care if the world saw it broken and batter tonight

It did not care whether if it would weather the night

It did not care whether it would fare better under a different moon’s night

It only cared whether it would fare better under this moon’s next night

For A Foreign Crown

My eyes fall forward

My mind flees back

Felling its

Unclears

Falling back,

unto rejuvenated Fears.

My eyes fall forward

My mind flees back

Ready to rush

into battle,

clad in browned silver!

Grunting gales

Slurring neighs and brays

Songs of clattering armor

Floating about the Stage

But arrows of men waiver

Unable to secure even vapor

My eyes fell forward

My feet fall back

Bright lights unto chattering remains

Upend this curtain drop with an unexpected claim!

My silence, unable to obtain–

My eyes, still unready for

Their eye’s reign.

Parasomnia

Stuttering greets melancholy

In their whispers beyond the night.

Rosin thoughts chopped blindly

By the slow creeping of the light.

A songbird’s soliloquy

Speaks of joy and delight

But how could it steal me from that

Cold, Dark, Unremembered

Night?

I’ve been thinking

I’ve gone thinking again

I guess we all have, too

I mean, there’s nothing to do

Nothin’ but thinkin’

Thinkin’ bout’ you.

in our,

Broken blocks

next to

Ignored clocks.

These days

the bullets are flying

These days

My friends say they’re dying

What are we to say?

What are we to do?

Other than, we are

Thinking ’bout you–

These days go as far as tar

and our livers are wishing they’d reopen a bar

We filled our stomachs. Stuffed ’em on greed

and our eyes can’t see nothin’.

Only the rapture and weed

What will be left?

What are we to do?

We always seem to get stuck

Thinking ’bout you–

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