The Education We Deserve

    Have you ever felt like you're missing out on something, or that you're being cheated from having an experience? I have found myself feeling this way quite recently, especially as I am nearing the end of my first college semester. Obviously many things regarding school have changed due to the coronavirus, and I can't help but feel cheated on not a college experience  in general but specifically on my education.

    

    I am a part of various clubs and organizations on campus. However, every single one of them have had to alter their activities as well as form of meeting together because of Covid. One example I could use is my Korean language club. This was one of the clubs I was most excited about, since the beginning of the semester. I was so thrilled  join this club as I knew that I wanted to sometime in my college career study abroad in South Korea. I had read a lot about the fairly new club and saw all of the interesting cultural and interactive activities they conducted as part of the learning experience. I was looking forward to all of these amazing opportunities! Unfortunately, all of the social activities had been taken out of the club's program and we are currently only meeting online. While I have been able to still learn a lot through the club, I still feel like I have missed out on a more effective experience learning the foreign language.

 

    The Korean language club, however is just one of the few ways in which I feel cheated of my education.  I have had to get tutored more times than I can remember for my MA 109 class, because of the difficulty of learning the material over zoom lectures with my professor. I have also not been able to shadow a physician as I will need to for my degree. While I have been doing fairly well in my classes I have not been able to really apply anything that I have learned, making me feel that I will not remember those specific concepts when needed in the future.  However, I am not the only individual who feels this way. There have been multiple memes, as well as TikTok ( a short-form video sharing app) skits, discussing the fact that professionals, specifically medical professionals will not understand many concepts because of the way that they are being taught at the moment, due to the pandemic. What frightens me the most is that no one knows when the craziness of this pandemic will come to an end. When will things be normal so that individuals can truly gain all that they can gain out of their educational experience?

   

Meme Discussing Future Medical Professionals Lack of Knowledge Due to Their Pandemic Learning Experience