You are Amit/Anita, you have just completed your Final Exams today. Write a diary entry on
how you feel and what you plan to do in the coming days.
(5 marks)
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You are Amit/Anita, you have just completed your Final Exams today. Write a diary entry on
how you feel and what you plan to do in the coming days.
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March 8, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. GMT+5:30
On a Friday in early April, Meredith McLaughlin wrote in her journal that her family had pan-seared tuna steaks, roasted Brussels sprouts and steak fries for dinner. “As close to a restaurant meal as we will get for a while,” she noted. “The steak fries were perfect.” She also noted that the “fish market folks delivered the fish,” and that she and her husband had a “lovely walk” to Golubinjak, a wooded park in the village of Lokve, Croatia.
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McLaughlin, a teacher at the University of Wyoming’s Laboratory School in Laramie, was on sabbatical in Lokve when the pandemic hit. (I connected with her through her sister-in-law, a childhood friend of mine.) When she wrote to me last August, she explained that she has long kept journals, but that she began a new one she calls “Quarantine Recipes” to record what she, her husband and their three kids ate, as well as their daily movements, in case they needed to do contact tracing. “Feeding my family was prevalent in my mind and took up a lot of time,” she added. She writes more when she’s feeling unsettled, she said, and she had noticed a “surge in entries” during the pandemic.
McLaughlin, it turns out, is like a lot of us. When the pandemic began, many people sensed that we were about to live through something historically notable, and took pains to document it. Organizations around the country and the world — historical societies, museums, libraries among them — began collecting artifacts about the pandemic, including personal narratives.
“To us, the details are mundane,” says Jeffrey Reznick, referring to how we might feel about our own musings. He is a historian and chief of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. “But to a future scholar, they can tell us a little bit about how we were resilient in facing this profound change in our lives, or how we were not.”
Reznick and his colleague Christie Moffatt, the chair of NLM’s Web collecting and archiving efforts, are part of the library’s collaborative attempt to assemble artifacts from the current pandemic era — a push that started as soon as the World Health Organization declared covid-19 a global health emergency. While the archive contains analog materials — it even has an Anthony Fauci baseball card — there’s “a strong emphasis” on online content. It now has nearly 6,500 “items” from the Web, including articles, videos, press releases and personal stories. “There’s so many opportunities to collect and document this,” Moffatt says.