• Home
  • Search
  • Browse Collections
  • My Account
  • About
  • DC Network Digital Commons Network™
Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • FAQ
  • My Account
Mosaic Messiah University

Home > Covid Chronicles

Covid Chronicles @ Messiah

Covid Chronicles @ Messiah

 

Share your COVID-19 story! Members of the Messiah community are invited to submit an anecdote, poem, reflection, photo, video, or blog post to Covid Chronicles @ Messiah. These will be preserved and presented in Mosaic. Click to submit

Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. Please first navigate to a specific Image before printing.

Follow

Switch View to Grid View Slideshow
 
  • When this is over by Doose Ahua

    When this is over

    Doose Ahua

    Text

    A poem about priorities

    When this is over

    Will we still wash our hands as often as we do now or can we go back to playing with dirt all day without panicking?...

  • Cassidy’s COVID Story by Cassidy Barlock

    Cassidy’s COVID Story

    Cassidy Barlock

    Text

    After almost nine months of avoiding COVID-19 and continually testing negative, I was finally exposed to the virus after my boyfriend came home from college for Thanksgiving and Christmas break....

    Originally published on The Pulse website.

  • Farewell from Music Seniors by Department of Music, Messiah University

    Farewell from Music Seniors

    Department of Music, Messiah University

    Video

    A reflective compilation of videos from senior music students (recorded from their homes during quarantine)

    • What is your favorite memory from Messiah? (00:20)
    • What is your favorite musical memory from Messiah? (01:28)
    • What is your funniest Messiah Memory? (02:57)
    • What will you miss most about Messiah? (04:05)
    • What will you miss the least? (04:44)
    • Any professors you'd like to thank? (05:32)
    • Any advice for an incoming student? (07:48)

  • COVID-19 is Baking me crazy! by Abigail Fontana

    COVID-19 is Baking me crazy!

    Abigail Fontana

    Image

    COVID-19 is Baking me crazy!

    (See facemask cake design)

  • Reflection on COVID-19 on my blog by Ambreen Imran

    Reflection on COVID-19 on my blog

    Ambreen Imran

    Text

    Covid-19 I hate you!

    I hate you for the havoc you have created, and I hate you more for the terror you have spread.

    Recently my daughter had a fever and vomiting. The moment she fell sick we all were in a panic, first of all for her recovery, and secondly for my old parents who live with us...

  • Learning Technology Services by Cindi Kerns

    Learning Technology Services

    Cindi Kerns

    Text

    Colleagues,

    I write you today from the heart. I've been reading a lot of articles about how hard this semester's transition has been for both faculty and students. I've seen it first hand in Zoom meetings from your homes and in Zoom student presentations from basements and kitchen tables, often with life happening in the background. Without the public face of our offices we are more vulnerable, less able to hide the reality of our lives. I can't imagine how you are finding time to care for your own families in addition to your students. This physical separation has been so hard for all of you. And heaven only knows how you are finding time to care for yourself.

  • A Lack of Community by Connor A. Kime

    A Lack of Community

    Connor A. Kime

    Text

    To be completely honest having school online has not been the most difficult part of this pandemic. Academically I am actually performing better than I did before, but socially I am struggling. I miss the community that Messiah College is so full of. I miss walking down to Melly Apartments and seeing my guys Garrett Showalter, Caleb Jones, Matt Glogowski and Will Young. I miss the boys!!!!

  • Equilibrium: Reflections from a College Counselor during Covid-19 by Aubrey Kleinfeld

    Equilibrium: Reflections from a College Counselor during Covid-19

    Aubrey Kleinfeld

    Text

    Equilibrium...The word emerged almost 30 years later on the Friday before spring break when I sat in my office in Hoffman at 4pm with a client who was processing the receipt of the email suggesting due to Covid-19 we may not return back to school after spring break as planned. We sat in the vertigo of unknowing, security being upended, with only the equilibrium of each other’s presence in the here and now....

  • Hindsight Is 2020: VOTE by Halima Krugh

    Hindsight Is 2020: VOTE

    Halima Krugh

    Video

    Produced by Halima (She/Her), ©️October 2020 Song: Ego (Human Album), Rag’n’Bone Man Written by Rory Charles Graham, Ben Ash, Ina Christine Wroldsen Artwork: David Macomber #Vote2020 https://www.whenweallvote.org

  • Disaster Reflection by Irene Lee

    Disaster Reflection

    Irene Lee

    Text

    It’s quite a time right now, isn’t it? We, as a collective society, have not dealt with this kind of pandemic, so we’re feeling all kinds of emotions – fear, anxiety, helplessness. The COVID-19 crisis has affected me physiologically, mentally, socially, and spiritually. I am hyper aware of where I put my body in public. I have less contact with public objects like park benches and shopping carts. I wash my hands a lot more. It’s been quite the adjustment living back at home with my family and doing school work around them. I feel like I don’t have as much personal space, but I have gradually overcome that frustrated feeling as I bonded more with my loved ones. Because of the way I look, I have been a victim to multiple racist comments at my school and in the public. My family has also dealt with outright racist remarks in public either while we’re walking around the lake or shopping around in the grocery stores. This pandemic has exacerbated racism and its fear-mongering tactics of hatred against Asian-Americans and Asians all over the world. Also, it has disproportionally affected communities of color in this country in ways that some people don’t care to recognize. Our country needs to come together and do our part in flattening this curve – by staying home, social distancing, washing hands crazily – not by protesting for the freedom to get a haircut. I believe that the proclaimed idea of our individualism has been hurting the common good.

  • Being a Nursing Student During Covid-19 by Amber MacKay

    Being a Nursing Student During Covid-19

    Amber MacKay

    Text

    Suck it up, get it together

    A B is not good enough

    Why are you a mess?

    Do better, be more organized

    You're slipping

    You used to be good at school

    And only I say these things to myself

    Covid, huh

    No, it hasn't touched me

    Not like other people

    I don't have hours of time sitting around

    I haven't lost my schedule or my work

  • Graduating class of Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling Graduate students during Covid 19 by Kristi Mouttet

    Graduating class of Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling Graduate students during Covid 19

    Kristi Mouttet

    Combination

    This was the group of graduate counseling Marriage, Couple and Family students who have adapted to Telemental health in their final semester of field experience at their sites.

  • First week of teaching hybrid zoom/in-person classes by Matthew Roth

    First week of teaching hybrid zoom/in-person classes

    Matthew Roth

    Video

    Originally posted on the Facebook page for Messiah University English Department. We checked in with Professor Roth to see how his first week of hybrid zoom/ in-person classes went, and listen to his response!

    • How did your first week of classes go?
    • What has been your favorite class thus far?

  • My Quarantine at Messiah University by Nathan Rowe

    My Quarantine at Messiah University

    Nathan Rowe

    Video

    This film documents my experiences in on-campus quarantine at Messiah University.

  • The Performing Arts by Damian Savarino

    The Performing Arts

    Damian Savarino

    Video

    Dr. Savarino briefly discusses the effect the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the performing arts. (4:37)

  • Covid at Messiah by Holly Schall

    Covid at Messiah

    Holly Schall

    Combination

    I have really had my dreams crushed this year from Covid. For one, I am so excited that my sister is a freshman this year so we can be on campus together. However, with Covid, nothing has gone our way from no visitation to no going off campus to explore. I wanted to take her to all my favorite places and do fun things with her but I am not able to do what we had planned due to Covid....

    A photo is part of the submission

  • A Masked Minute with Samuel Smith by Samuel Smith

    A Masked Minute with Samuel Smith

    Samuel Smith

    Video

    Originally posted on the Facebook page for Messiah University English Department.

    "We got to chat a bit with Professor Smith about the English classes he’s teaching this semester!"

  • Travel Equals Empathy by Beth Transue

    Travel Equals Empathy

    Beth Transue

    Text

    One benefit that most of us experience as a result of our travels is increased empathy. That feels no truer than during this COVID-19 pandemic. Knowing the people and places that are affected brings this tragedy home in a way that no newscast can. I feel that two of the hardest hit areas of this pandemic, outside of the US, has affected me more deeply because of my past and personal connections with both hard-hit areas.

  • A Messiah Student’s Response to the Pandemic by Christian Valen

    A Messiah Student’s Response to the Pandemic

    Christian Valen

    Text

    Navigating through all the uncertainties and apprehension caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has been an epic journey for me. The constant changes, the upheavals, and lack of clarity all seem to exacerbate the angst. In the midst of all this though, I discovered something about myself. A lot of my discovery has to do with my last three years spent as a student at Messiah College....

  • Concentrating On Victory In Disaster by Joseph Wolf

    Concentrating On Victory In Disaster

    Joseph Wolf

    Text

    Masks on, doors closed

    Restless energy, with life indisposed

    I read my bible, I do my school

    I want to go out, but I am no fool

    I talk to my mother, my brother and dad

    I play my Nintendo to make me glad

    I know my God will hold my hand

  • April 8, 2020 Email to Colleagues by Doug Wood

    April 8, 2020 Email to Colleagues

    Doug Wood

    Text

    Subject: Small insights into classroom Covid operations

    Friends,

    When asking my zooming CCC students the biggest impact of the campus shut down, to a person they agreed it was the loss of daily interactions with their friends. Like us, they grieve the loss of proximity in relationships...

 
 
 

Browse

  • Collections
  • Disciplines
  • Authors

Search

Advanced Search

  • Notify me via email or RSS

Author Corner

  • Author FAQ

Links

  • Murray Library
  • Digital Proficiency Initiative
  • Undergraduate Research
  • University Honors Program
  • Open Educational Resources
  • Brethren in Christ Archives
Facebook logo Twitter logo Instagram logo Youtube logo
 
Elsevier - Digital Commons

Home | About | FAQ | My Account | Accessibility Statement

Privacy Copyright