 I'm Jermir. My name is Christy. Hi, I'm Caitlin. I'm Aaron. Bernie. My name is Jolian, J-O-L-Y-O-N. Okay, uh, so what did you feel like about at the beginning of the panic? What did you think of it? At the beginning of the pandemic, um, I fell overwhelmed, like the news, I was questioning, like, I thought it was a little conspiracy. I was, like, guessing the motivation, like, oh, who's making money from this. And then, um, yeah, I guess I felt a little bit scared about how serious it was and the ambiguity of, like, no one knew what it was and then how quickly things escalated and how schools are shutting down and everything shut down really quickly. So I was, I guess, fear, yeah. I was scared and confused a lot, but it ended up being kind of a good time for me, actually. It was pretty bad for me. I had to go home for a long time. I think there's been a lot of positive things. I think the vaccine worked very well. I think we're dealing ready for the next step without a mask. I'm very happy with that and very pleased with it. Appreciate what I have. To be grateful for what I have, the things I go to, what's happening. And, uh, to be very grateful for everything I have. I think gratitude is one of the main keys in all this. I've learned that we all have to take care of each other, I think, even more so than I knew before. To be more careful and to understand the importance of health and things. I think health is a very important thing to value. How would you say that COVID, like, affected your mental health and just how you went about things every day? Sure. Well, I certainly spent a lot less time interacting with people face-to-face. One of the joys of being involved in grad school is that you often are a teaching assistant, so you spend a lot of time interacting with students. That all moved from, you know, face-to-face interaction to behind a computer and that's very different. It's more difficult to educate that way. There's a lot of people in the way that everyone loves to travel and get out there and we all kind of had to go home and kind of shelter in and it took a lot of out, a lot out of a lot of people, I think. So would you say that your mental health declined a lot during COVID? Yeah, I mean, I had to do a lot of, find a lot of different alternatives in terms of like jogging and going to the gym more and when the gym shut down you really had to like do some workouts in your own apartment just to kind of keep your mental health strong, you know. Okay, cool. Well, do you feel like you came out of the pandemic with a lot of like more knowledge about yourself and or anything like that? I mean, for sure. I mean, I think we all go to bed with ourselves at night and we really have to wake up and fight another day and just continue on. Yeah. Well, thank you very much, Steve. Have a great one. I appreciate it. I appreciate it too. Thank you. Yep.