Friday, September 11, 2020

The Meet and Greet

 Normally, the cohort would meet and learn in person, but due to COVID-19 the school has had to make some adjustments.

We maintain a virtual presence in Sococo, which feels kind of feels like the lamest real-time video game ever. I don’t mean that in the sense that Sococo is bad, but that you can’t shoot other players or slay dragons. Upon logging in, your avatar can enter different rooms and collaborate with other users. We each have a classroom we’re assigned to, which contains links to the Zoom meeting lectures and other materials.

Today’s meet and greet was over Zoom and included sixty people. We were given introductory questions in advance and every person on the call answered them. This has the recipe to be supernaturally long and boring, but it was great fun! I was surprised by the range of ages, backgrounds, interests, etc.

I am a dork, so I took notes. I want to make new friends and learn more about people. I’m really sad that we have to meet online. I’ve never had a learning experience where my anxiety was in check, so I was looking forward to actually interacting with unfamiliar humans, as opposed to running from them.

2 comments:

  1. Wow! How did they get sixty people to answer a bunch of questions in a reasonable manner? I can't even imagine... I thought your class had like, 12 students!

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    1. Hahaha. We were all in a zoom room and if we had a question, we'd type it in the chatbox and then they'd call on us in order

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