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Teaching During Covid
Rita Guritz
A high school teacher shares her experience of the pandemic, and the challenges of teaching remotely.
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Interview with Shinsuke Adachi (Transcription)
Shinsuke Adachi
This is a transcription of an interview with Shinsuke Adachi, a Carleton student from Japan. In this interview, Shinsuke Adachi explains their difficulty remaining concentrated and motivated while taking online classes while staying in Tokyo.
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Edgar Aguirre Interview (Video)
Edgar Aguirre and Clara Posner
This is an interview with Edgar Aguirre who remained on campus for the term. (He/Him/His/class of 2022/Economics/Bronx, NY/Northfield, MN)
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Edgar Aguirre - Written Story
Edgar Aguirre and Clara Posner
This is a brief written story and photo by Edgar Aguirre, who remained on campus for the entire term. (He/Him/His/class of 2022/Economics/Bronx, NY/Northfield, MN)
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From Giving Care to Making Masks
Mary Allen
Mary Allen, of North Carolina, recounts what its like to go from providing care, to being unable to do so, to giving out homemade masks.
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Remote Teaching Set Up
Sonja Anderson
Religion Professor Sonja Anderson posted on a Carleton buy and sell email list advertising unused chalkboard contact paper. After questions about her teaching set up for remote teaching, she sent another message describing how she set up her teaching station, along with an image of it.
Partial email text: "Several people have asked about the real chalkboard I bought for teaching from home. I bought this one (48"x36") on Amazon, though it's now sold out. Photo attached of how I set it up in my spare room. Key furniture was a milk crate, two tables, and two lamps positioned at my 9 o'clock and 2 o'clock. Used Apple AirPods (bought with PDA) for sound and mic. I had no problems with chalkboard glare, but I can't speak to WHITE boards. I did all class sessions live on Zoom but set them to record automatically and store in Panopto for students who were absent." -
Spring Term as a Senior in Quarantine
Anonymous Carleton Senior (Class of 2020)
In this interview, a senior explains current life in Northfield and addresses her mindset shift regarding the end of her Carleton experience.
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2020 a year that no one could predict
Anonymous Carleton Staff Member
Photo Descriptions: Registrar's Office July 31, 2020 (with winter decorations still up). Playing with Strangers from NY in Mexico 2 weeks before lockdown.
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A Carleton Student's Story
Anonymous Carleton Student
Oral history provided by a current Carleton student regarding their individual and family experience in quarantine due to COVID-19.
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Anonymous Carleton Student Interview (Audio)
Anonymous Carleton Student
This is an interview with an Anonymous Carleton student who remains on campus during the pandemic. (She\Her\Hers/class of 2022/Mathematics/China/On-campus)
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A Story to Tell by a Carleton student
Anonymous Carleton Student
This is a written story of a Carleton student who remains on campus during the pandemic. (She\Her\Hers/class of 2022/Mathematics/China/On-campus)
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Carleton Isn't Going To, And Then They Did
Anonymous Carleton Student
This item is a transcribed interview of a current Carleton student, addressing the international spread of the pandemic, social isolation, and social barriers despite being in the age of technology.
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Carleton Student's Experience Being An Only Child In Quarantine
Anonymous Carleton Student
Current Carleton student explains how quarantine has impacted her personal relationships.
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Current Student's Deep Reflections on Life During and After the Pandemic
Anonymous Carleton Student
In this interview, a Carleton student reflects on what they miss about life at school, the benefits of solidarity, their privilege (stable family), other students' losses, connections to previous historic events, and explains their father's role as an infectious disease doctor, all culminating in total uncertainty for the future.
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First Year Cut Short: A Carleton Student's Experience
Anonymous Carleton Student
This interview of a current first year at Carleton touches on the difficulties of learning via technology and lacking in person connections that many students take for granted. Additionally, this student explains her family dynamics and others she has heard of.
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Having to Say Goodbye: Recent Carleton Graduate's Reflections
Anonymous Carleton Student
This item is a transcription of an interview of a Carleton senior who recently graduated (after winter 2020). She reflects on the end of winter term and the rush to say goodbye to everyone. Additionally, she details what she is grateful for and puts the end of her Carleton experience in perspective.
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Road Trip Back Home
Anonymous Carleton Student
In this interview, a Carleton student explains her experience driving back to Nevada from Carleton at the end of winter term.
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Road Trip Documentation
Anonymous Carleton Student
This is a small collection of images and videos from student's road trip home after winter term. States driven through were Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California. The zip file contains 23 photos and 45 videos (most under 10 seconds).
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Student's Experience Being Away From Friends and Campus Life
Anonymous Carleton Student
This item is a mini interview with a current Carleton student, addressing both positive and negative aspects of this pandemic and how relationships have been impacted.
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Testimony From a Student Still On Campus
Anonymous Carleton Student
A current Carleton student tells their experience of living on campus.
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Pandemic Photography Portfolio
Anonymous Carleton Student and Clara Posner
This portfolio was a final project for a Carleton photography class. In it, this student captures her life in quarantine in Lake Tahoe through images and short captions. She examines loneliness, repetition, nature, monotony, emotional fatigue, and her connection to swimming. Overall, this portfolio artistically portrays confusion and despair resulting from the pandemic, ultimately countered by positive reflection and growth.
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Experiences of a Teenage Nursing Home Assistant
Anonymous Minnesota High School Student
This mini interview details a high schooler's experience continuing to work in a nursing home during the pandemic. This interview highlights her relationships with the residents, precautions being taken to remain safe, and her personal enjoyment continuing to work and doing something meaningful.
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Positives and Negatives: A Mom's Experience in Quarantine
Anonymous Mother
This interview of a mother touches on both positive and negatives. Working from home, she has been able to spend more time with her son, yet she is worrying now more than ever. The interview took place over the phone (phone call) with one participant in Emerson, New Jersey and the other in Aurora, Illinois.
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A Guide for Rainy Days
Dan Ashurst
This photobook expresses the author's experience with depression in general and during the COVID-19 pandemic. All photos were taken in and near the artist's house in Prattville, Alabama as a result of the stay-at-home order and later voluntary self-quarantine of Spring 2020. Some images speak to the experience of a social and academic life maintained mostly digitally. Others analyze the lack of clarity, descent into darkness, and subsequent return to hope.
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Daniel Ashurst - A Guide to a Rainy Day and Photos
Daniel Ashurst and Clara Posner
"As a student with diagnosed depression, I've had an incredibly difficult time motivating myself. The stay-at-home order has been very taxing on my mental health as social interaction was a big part of the typical management of my depression. My family also panic bought and generally has an unhelpful attitude towards the virus, choosing to believe that it is no worse than the flu, will go away soon, etc." A Guide to a Rainy Day was a project inspired by the first two months of quarantine in the United States and the depression Dan experienced during the period of self-isolation to prevent the spread of the virus. (Submitted to a Carleton Photography Class Spring 2020.) Additional Photo Outline: The first photo is of my desk, displaying my workspace during remote courses. The second is a picture which captures the over-purchasing of cereal as it lurks in the background of a shot of a painting. (He/Him/His/class of 2022/Art History/Montgomery, Alabama/Montgomery, Alabama)
