Anyone else feeling like they got massively screwed over by this pandemic? Like, what are the odds of something this big happening in my final semester? Holy shit the amount of economic repercussions in the upcoming months are gonna be insane. Life feels unreal
Posted Mar 18, 2020, 10:20 AM UTC
I work as a hostess at a restaurant a few minutes away from campus and now I’m out of a job because they can only do deliveries. Meanwhile people are still asking me what my career plans are after graduation. I don’t know what my career plans are after spring break man can we deal with that first. Like I’m okay with a delayed ceremony but I need money
Life does feel unreal. There was this girl I liked. I won't get to see her now :( It sounds like such a dumb problem when there are others in the world going through some crazy stuff right now.
It’s not dumb at all. I’m sorry! That’s such a bummer.
If it helps you feel any better, when faced with stressful situations or the reality of our own mortality, people think about and consider all of the little dumb things in life. realistically, a lot of those things matter more than the pandemics and stuff because those little things are what makes life enjoyable to a lot of people.
It’s a sign.
Not a dumb problem, I can relate to you in that one
I applied to a dream job a while ago before all of this happened and now I’m paranoid they won’t be hiring anymore or the hiring process will be delayed even more now 😬
I’m just really bored.
You're getting downvoted like this isn't a legitimate complaint. Sure there are plenty of things you can do while in quarantine (learn new skills online, catch up on movies/games, etc.), but that doesn't change the fact that it's boring for many people. There are real psychological effects to being quarantined.
bro i can't even right now with this virus omg if i could see it i would beat the shit out of it dude
I lose my health insurance in three months and have an issue that will take some time to get resolved. Since medical professionals are flooded with the threat of virus right now, I feel selfish for trying to get an issue that's not immediately threatening figured out amidst the chaos.
My summer job (working at a summer camp) might be affected, and it's money I really depend on to get me through the transition when I have mostly depleted my financial aid designated for living expenses and am waiting for my refund to hit in August.
I have not brought this up with administration yet because I understand this is a sensitive situation and a definitive threat, but I do feel like costs associated with on-campus tuition should be refunded. Even if they just give us a subsidized amount for our parking passes, that would be helpful. It is really disappointing because some classes are almost impossible to instruct fully online, and even though I live off-campus, I opt for in-person instruction because I get more out of it, it keeps me focused and better organized, and I have a better success rate.
My brother and sister have both lost work for the foreseeable future and we are all just struggling to find the silver lining. My mom is a teacher and has also lost work, plus her district is saying they might not pay their faculty for the time-being (wtf). I admittedly haven't followed the news as well as some others, but it just seems to me that this whole ordeal has made it painfully obvious how little our imaginary number system impacts the government and top-dogs as opposed to us common plebs.
Thanks for posting this rant thread. I do not want to come off as insensitive, and I am definitely not mad at anyone who has gotten sick or is at risk. I am frustrated with how it's been handled and the economic aftermath.
I just got documentation from the OSA for my chronic illness last week, in the hopes of getting my professor to give me some alternative assignments (he does alot of pop quizzes, which I miss because of my condition). Then all this stuff happens and i'm not even getting an email back from him (I understand they're all busy, but I emailed him before all this stuff happened last week).
Welp all I can say is good luck dude we’re all in the same boat and we just gotta hope the politicians clean this mess up.
I agree. I’m a grad student and online classes are going to be stupid. Graduation won’t be until December most probably, if we’re lucky, it’ll be in August. I hate that my plans have been disrupted because somebody had to go on vacation or a cruise or had to eat infected meat.
I agree that it sucks and am not trying to belittle your complaints, but out of curiosity how have your plans been disrupted by a postponed commencement ceremony? If you finish all of your courses online this semester but don't get to attend a ceremony you're still done with school and can start applying for whatever jobs or whatever your plan was.
Though of course maybe you're talking about how even once that point comes maybe you won't be able to because the pandemic has shut down the world and nobody's hiring. That's really a worrying prospect.
A lot of people might have families out-of-state, especially foreigners, that might have been planning trips/etc to come see their commencement ceremony and now have to cancel/reschedule, or had special plans for their Graduate degree that differ from what they did for their Undergrad degree.
Same here, that is exactly one of my thoughts.
I'm worried about the repercussions. Don't really mind the graduation ceremony.
Didn't even want to go to the ceremony, especially since it would partake in a gym smaller than my high school's graduation.
I'm a CS sophomore & I have been looking for a software engineering internship since early August. This was my first time going through the entire recruiting process and had absolutely no idea what all to expect. Nobody told me anything about it so I had to learn everything on my own. Interview after interview, failed each one and got disappointed (but it was my fault).
With each one I failed, I got an idea of what they're expecting and that helped with the next one I had. Main issues I faced were being nervous, not being able to talk much in technical depth about my side projects, and not knowing the company's mission / values ahead of time because I was too focused on not being nervous.
Fast forward to now, I did an onsite interview last month with a company I talked to during the career fair and the interviewer said he was impressed with my background and skills and all. 3 weeks later, I have heard nothing from them despite sending multiple follow up emails to the recruiter. Might be due to coronavirus but either way, this was the one time that I felt like I was so close to securing something for the summer.
It feels unreal man.. the moment I get myself together & not get nervous when interviewing, this coronavirus bullshit happens. Had I known back in August that shit was gonna hit the fan this hard, I would have focused a lot less on school and tried so much harder. Worked so hard building somewhat useful side projects too. I still have next year but I'm at a disadvantage by not having anything lined up this summer. Absolutely heartbreaking to see all of my efforts go down the drain.
All of your efforts did not go down the drain.
Multiple of my friends recently graduated and got a job without internship prior.
You're at an advantage tbh. You have done interviews and experience with interview process. Most of us don't. I still don't have an internship and about to graduate.
Comparing yourself to others will hurt you.
Yeah I’ve heard that people have gotten offers from good companies w/o having internships. I’m just worried because it’s starting to get ridiculously competitive nowadays and to shoot for the top companies I pretty much need to have prior experience.
But yeah you’re right, lots of my friends are interning at very well known places and I also wanted to have a shot at them just to see how it’s like. I may have to take on unpaid work to get my foot in the door.
I will say that being quarantined is really keeping me down in the dumps
Was offered a great internship. End of the world would happen when I’m finally getting my shit together
kinda. Fortunately, I'm able to accommodate to the changes and stuff.
It's kinda surreal how fast this progressed. At first, it was just suspending any mandatory attendance policies, then it went to all classes online and extended spring break, and now it's at clearing out the RH and CCH. All that happened in the matter of like what, a week?
and yeah there are going to be a lot of economic repercussions. One of my friends has been laid off until she comes back into work and my boyfriend may have trouble finding a tech job for the next few months. This was one hell of a way to close out a final year of college.
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i’m about to lose my job, and i pay $6000 a semester. if this doesn’t end soon, i can’t pay for next semester.
My job just cut my hours and had 20+ people in furlough.
Our managers told us to apply for unemployment ASAP if we are not assign any hours.
Yeah, this is going to be far worse than the 2008 crisis. Sorry Zoomers, COVID -19 is going to ruin everyone's shit and give y'all and the boomers have a double helping of it.
It seems like it will be even harder for me to get an internship than it already is.
For sure! I didn’t mind the classes being online but what sucks more is not being able to partake in the graduation ceremony until months later after we graduate.
I believe OP was more frustrated about having a job and money after graduating than UTD's basketball court graduation.But graduation months after, sucks too.
I know but considering this is a vent thread, I was just adding to the conversation about what other expecting graduating students might have not liked about this situation. After years of hard work, commencement can be a big deal even if it takes place in a shitty venue.
I agree, young padawan. I agree.