By Johnson Yu, staff writer
When distance learning was first introduced, I was honestly pretty excited. Being able to stay at home, having all day to do your homework, and even being able to join your class in bed, is almost like a dream too good to be true. However, it hasn’t been as good as it seemed.
Now that I’m a semester into distance learning, I realize this is definitely not what I had in mind. Joining a class within your comfortable bed isn’t the best idea because I often find myself joining class extremely tired, and even sleeping in the few beginning minutes of class. It is also harder to communicate with teachers, having to email them about questions instead of going to their classroom is very inconvenient, due to teachers sometimes not being able to reply quickly.While managing your classwork and homework is way easier, the teachers seem to give out more work as we have more time on our hands.
While I liked distance learning in the first few weeks of senior year, that has changed. Although classwork is way easier than before, It has changed all of my routine and living style. Personally, this is not the best learning strategy for me. It has changed all of my routine and living style. I went from being able to wake up at 6:30 AM everyday to catch the bus, and physically walking to class to hardly waking up a minute before online class, logging in half asleep then continuing to nap while the teacher is greeting everyone.
I used to have after school activities like going to hoop with my friends, getting exercise everyday while walking around and hanging out with friends, but throughout days and days of being in bed for class, it has made me pretty lazy. I’ve lost the motivation to exercise and be productive; I’ve been playing video games after class everyday, facing a computer screen almost the entire day that I am awake.
Another negative part is that distance learning has made me dislike some of my teachers. Not being able to talk to them in person, them not talking about anything but school work has made them a lot more distant than teachers when I would see them in person, and any negative thing they say has a much bigger effect on how I see them.
Distance learning has not been the best for me. While I’ve found it easier on the school work side of things, it can be pretty difficult to stay productive and keep up a consistent schedule, which has affected both my health & my mentality.
