 Hi, everyone. My name is Maya. I use she her pronouns. I'm a third year at Mount Holyoke And I'm a politics major and French minor and this fall I spent studying remotely from my home in Farmington Hills, Michigan Hi, everyone. I'm Haya. I use she her pronouns. I'm currently senior at Mount Holyoke I am math and computers. I'm a double major and this fall I was studying remotely from my home in California Hi, I'm Shreta. I use she her pronouns. I'm a sophomore I'm a bio major and a chem minor and I was on campus for this fall My name is Kazeel Kauche. I'm a senior. I'm a chemistry major with a bio minor and This fall I was studying on campus So we all know that this was a very unprecedented semester completely unpredictable Definitely a new experience for all of us. And so as we're sitting here talking together and reflecting on this past semester I was wondering To learn more about all of your experiences. And so I wanted to ask all of you What are one to two things that really did go well? This past fall semester and maybe what are one to two things that did not And so while all of you reflect on what your answers would be I can go ahead and get us get get us started So I would say for things that did not go well I think it was really hard for me to adjust to the module system. Everything was just so fast paced I felt like I was doing a lot of readings at night and it was really hard for me to adjust how I Managed my own time and then I was trying to get used to studying at home And you know my parents knocking on my door asking me if I had lunch yet and now mom I'm in class that kind of thing. And so that was a really rough adjustment period for me But then on the flip side into mod to some things that I thought ended up going well is that You know, I could be in bed. And so I felt very comfortable It motivated to go to class because then I was like I can be comfortable. I can do what I need to do And there is just like a little bit more flexibility with remote learning even though everything's going at a fast pace I felt like I had more time and to do the things that I wanted I was able to pick up some of the hobbies that I had to let go of before I started college. So They were definitely the good and the bad But what about all of you? What do you think? Yeah, I agree with you Maya and the Like the disadvantage of what I saw about this fall semester was on the Mario system I was struggling because I felt that some exams were just so close to each other and I didn't know which subject to give like a priority to and I was finding that really hard to manage But on the plus side, I feel like it was self-paced The whole learning because the most professors did record it and personally I felt It was a lot easier to watch the videos at my own pace to understand things better. So I Think my primary disadvantage was like time difference Like you think just being three hours behind wouldn't affect you to such great extents But I had like 5 a.m. classes which were just really horrible So I think primarily that was the difficulty for me Just like always translating time and actually knowing what I'm doing During the mod, but I think I agree with with them the self Pace learning. I think the videos were really nice If you could like pause it and then you could always go back to it doing notes And I think that was really nice and helpful Personally, I Enjoyed my mod one classes. I guess because of the time that I had classes I definitely did find time to do other things that I wasn't able to do When we had like regular classes But then when I transitioned to mod two I really struggled because the pace was different from mod one and But I just had to adjust to go quick because I only had seven weeks for mod two So it was it was a bit of a challenge, but for the most part I did enjoy the mod system I Guess it all depends on the classes and how they're scheduled It sounds like you had the opposite experience of me Like my first mod was super hectic and I felt very overwhelmed But then mod two I sort of had gotten used to everything and then when I was talking to some of my Friends who are going to universities that don't have the mod system They were just saying oh, I have seven exams and four projects and I have to go to work with all these things and I was like Got my two classes under my belt You know most melodic jobs also try to finish up before final as I felt very grateful in that moment But I also hear all of your saying I think you like similar experiences there It was strange adjusting to the mod system. Yeah, I think it was handled well though by now Holly if I mean as well as it could have been handled That's definitely true I think I see in my professors them taking a lot of time and effort to try to make it work and asking us You know, does this make sense? Which I really appreciate has how have all of your professors been I all my professors have been very helpful and really concentrate about the situation and I've spent a lot of time in office hours and they've been very very helpful the whole time so Yeah, I definitely agree. I really appreciate how flexible they were with their office hours during the mod system because Like I Guess that they're regular like one to two hours twice or three times a week Like isn't enough to ask all the questions that you have because like you might have a question on Monday And then you do on Tuesday and then the same was a Thursday Friday since you had classes every single day So I definitely appreciated their flexibility in order to like schedule Sometimes to meet up outside of their office hours I think it was really incredible to think about how much professors have also like going on in their lives like children and like jobs and like cooking and everything whereas we're just like sitting at home vibing with our Parents or ourselves at school and I think it's incredible like how much Effort they put in and I agree with everything that everyone else said Just like flexibility and always really being like on top of them. It was really great. I Love it when we get to meet professors kids though. Like I understand that they get frustrated that the kids are interrupting So like in my French class like her kid came in was like I liked it though, I thought it was kind of cute But I was also curious like I Have sort of been like I said been able to pick up some of my hobbies again Have any of you feel like you have more free time or is it all been devoted to studying and If there's a time difference like being adjusted to that or has anyone be able to Be a person outside of school for me in the first module I didn't have time to pick up my hobbies and Mostly was I used to give time to work out in the evenings, but I wasn't able to do that because my classes I had classes all afternoon and then a class from 7 through 10 p.m So I wasn't able to really work out in the evenings and I slept in all morning because I slept late after the class so Mod one I was struggling Mod two though all my classes finished in the morning So I did have a lot more time to pick up my hobby. So it did vary from each mod I had time in mod one because I had like a 10-hour difference between my classes. So I Had a whole lot of time I personally did not know what to do with it because I was able to finish some of my homework and get ready for my class and do some knitting before class and then I Just didn't know what else to do because also there wasn't much to do on campus because Of the whole situation we were in but yeah, I Also knit I made a full Score I'm glad that you also knit I feel like it's gonna like an old woman hobby, but if you're doing it that means it's gotta be cool Right, so I feel more ballad I'd like always wanted to learn how to knit and I keep trying to motivate myself But it seems like all of us have time and just like one mod or the other Mine was mod 2 where I just I am doing a thesis this semester or this year too And I only had one class mod 2 because of that and it was at 5 in the morning So I had like the rest of the day to just do like everything else But they wanted to do and I found myself picking up a lot of like new hobbies that were really fun So I definitely it seems like it depends on the mod for all of us