Describe the day, when you woke up on the first day of complete lockdown due
to COVID-19. State what you saw and what were your feelings.
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With my end of year assessments finally completed and out of the way, I thought I’d look back at how student life was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown.
Alarm clock on stack of books
Just before lockdown, I decided to leave London and move in with my family back at my home in Bristol. It was a hastily-packed, stressful whirlwind, not helped by conspiracies drifting around that London was about to enter some kind of drastic, Orwellian state of martial law. Never trust anyone whose primary source is their friend’s brother’s neighbour who ‘knows someone in the government’.
As we headed for the M4, I felt my exam motivation rapidly dissolve, followed by my plans for a relaxing summer. Back home, I fluctuated between boredom and panic. I spent the first few days watching the cases of Covid-19 rise, waiting for the Prime Minister’s next announcement and frantically refreshing my emails in the hopes that the UCL English department had sent news about summer exams.
After a few weeks of being home, I learned to cope with the uncertainty of the situation. One of the things that helped me the most was structure. Creating a rough timetable of my day gave me security and made hitting goals more satisfying. This got easier after UCL let me know exactly what was required of me in my summer assessments, so I knew what needed to get done and could plan my time around it.
This is what a typical day looked like as I settled into a lockdown routines
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