Declan Cambey | As Philadelphia reopens this summer, get out and explore
(05/24/21 7:23pm)
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on life at Penn. As classes turned online and students were stuck in their rooms on Zoom all day, isolation and loneliness spread across the student body. As a first year who moved to campus for the first time last semester, I felt it deeply, and with New Student Orientation and social events shifted completely online, it was difficult to make new friends. I felt myself stuck going through the motions: doing homework, getting dining hall food, going to class, going to bed, and waking up the next day — only to do it all again.