Also the most annoying part was when we were allowed to do the extended household thing for couples not co-habiting, but the catch was that one household could only be extended to another one household. So technically my flatmate and I who both have partners were technically supposed to choose which one of us was legally allowed to see their partner.
Quite early on we saw the injustice of it and decided to both see our partners but still.
All of the rules were just so assuming that everyone was part of a nice family unit in a single house, it was extremely unfair for students.
I know a lot of students seriously struggled with being locked indoors for such long periods. Many halls of residence are built such that many people literally just had to spend all day in their rooms, which seems like borderline torture. Especially difficult for first year students as they generally don’t even pick who they will be living with so they were trapped that whole time with a bunch of strangers.
Good on these guys for making the best of it at least.
Mental that they even made young people go through all this
I was in the year just ahead of them and had 2 years of COVID uni and i loved it. It was great not having to commute an hour to uni just for a two hour class, and I had more time left over for part time work, and spent less on food as well so overall it was pretty good
My entire foundation degree was online. Lockdowns robbed the first years of my 20s
So many people supported lockdowns and I think they were wrong. Lockdowns are wrong they cause too much harm
I was in private halls for most of the last 2 years. No one really talked to each other, so I spent most of my time sitting in my tiny beige room trying to do zoom calls on dodgy internet.
It was hell. Whenever we got locked down or had to self isolate I barely saw the sun. I just had to try and study in what amounted to solitary confinement.
I just couldn’t motivate myself to do anything. I fell behind. I started eating junk. Rubbish piled up in my room. The stress kept mounting but I couldn’t bring myself to do anything about it. Eventually I just broke. Around February this year I started hitting myself, then cutting, then contemplating suicide.
It started to look like I wasn’t going to pass the year, and that trying might cost me my life. It wasn’t worth it. I took a break from uni and gave up and gave up a very good year in industry to repeat third year.
Things are going better now. I’ve been prescribed medication, which has helped a lot. The nurse has tried to get me into therapy, but all they’ve been able to offer is an online course…
I got lucky. I’ve got parents to fall back on. I was able to see a psychiatric nurse who took me seriously. So these kinds of articles really rub me the wrong way. Because I don’t know *anyone* who wouldn’t change the last 2 years.
For me my mental health fell through the floor, had a mental breakdown and failed my degree so… Yeah.
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Pretty damn depressing in my experience.
Also the most annoying part was when we were allowed to do the extended household thing for couples not co-habiting, but the catch was that one household could only be extended to another one household. So technically my flatmate and I who both have partners were technically supposed to choose which one of us was legally allowed to see their partner.
Quite early on we saw the injustice of it and decided to both see our partners but still.
All of the rules were just so assuming that everyone was part of a nice family unit in a single house, it was extremely unfair for students.
I know a lot of students seriously struggled with being locked indoors for such long periods. Many halls of residence are built such that many people literally just had to spend all day in their rooms, which seems like borderline torture. Especially difficult for first year students as they generally don’t even pick who they will be living with so they were trapped that whole time with a bunch of strangers.
Good on these guys for making the best of it at least.
Mental that they even made young people go through all this
I was in the year just ahead of them and had 2 years of COVID uni and i loved it. It was great not having to commute an hour to uni just for a two hour class, and I had more time left over for part time work, and spent less on food as well so overall it was pretty good
My entire foundation degree was online. Lockdowns robbed the first years of my 20s
So many people supported lockdowns and I think they were wrong. Lockdowns are wrong they cause too much harm
I was in private halls for most of the last 2 years. No one really talked to each other, so I spent most of my time sitting in my tiny beige room trying to do zoom calls on dodgy internet.
It was hell. Whenever we got locked down or had to self isolate I barely saw the sun. I just had to try and study in what amounted to solitary confinement.
I just couldn’t motivate myself to do anything. I fell behind. I started eating junk. Rubbish piled up in my room. The stress kept mounting but I couldn’t bring myself to do anything about it. Eventually I just broke. Around February this year I started hitting myself, then cutting, then contemplating suicide.
It started to look like I wasn’t going to pass the year, and that trying might cost me my life. It wasn’t worth it. I took a break from uni and gave up and gave up a very good year in industry to repeat third year.
Things are going better now. I’ve been prescribed medication, which has helped a lot. The nurse has tried to get me into therapy, but all they’ve been able to offer is an online course…
I got lucky. I’ve got parents to fall back on. I was able to see a psychiatric nurse who took me seriously. So these kinds of articles really rub me the wrong way. Because I don’t know *anyone* who wouldn’t change the last 2 years.
For me my mental health fell through the floor, had a mental breakdown and failed my degree so… Yeah.