“No one said college was easy, especially living in a pandemic where hugs are a weapon and a mask is the difference between life and death. I hate it. I hate that there was a possibility of this never occurring. Week 1 down. Online College: 1 Franny: 0. Content: doable; Motivation: non-existent.”
So wrote Frances R. in one of her contributions to a new book, There Is No College in COVID: Selections From the Oregon State University–Cascades Student Journaling Project (Parafine Press). The book consists of a curated collection of journal entries from first-year students at OSU-Cascades enrolled in a fall 2020 academic success course designed to help ease the transition to college.
