Dealing with College FOMO in the Time of Social Distancing
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Date
2020-11-10
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Jaramillo, Shaina
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ORANGE Magazine
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COVID-19 hit the spring semester of my freshman year at the University of Texas at Austin and by then, I had just familiarized myself with campus and started to socialize with others. The pandemic cut my freshman year short and before I knew it, I was on a bus home to Dallas. Varying thoughts filled my head of whether or not I’d be able to finish this year in person, if I’d be able to still attend events, or if I would be able to see my friends back home. But most importantly it left me wondering what could have been.