Citrus has many returning students who have never stepped foot on campus and don’t know how to navigate an in-person environment.
Even after examining the campus map many times before arriving and reading all the emails on where to park, on the first day of school, new and returning students were still confused. Students struggled to find designated student parking lots, avoid parking tickets for backing in and find their classes.
The online atmosphere has worries of its own, but allows more room for mistakes. Struggling in the comfort of your own home is different than struggling in an unknown environment.
This disconnect is due to students’ whole college education being completely online.
This is a problem ASCC is having. Many clubs are disappearing because it is hard to stay engaged through zoom and network without actually being on campus.
Along with other struggles, everyone is trying to get in the habit of taking their daily pre-screening before arriving on campus and scanning QR codes before entering buildings.
For more than a year, students have been learning how to navigate Zoom, Canvas and CitrusMobile instead of the Citrus College campus. As a result, some returning students feel as though they are new students again.
While it is natural for people attending their first semester to seem a bit flustered, it is not as common for those who are in their third or fourth semester to feel the same way.
By this point in a returning student’s college life, they would have congregated with some friends, experienced some campus events, and joined a few study groups.
Instead, students are trying to network online through the CitrusMobile app and maybe follow a few people, but nothing more due to the difficult nature of our current society.Returning to a COVID-safe campus is difficult for everyone, but is even more difficult for those who have never had it any other way.
Wake up students… “There’s no evidence that a mask mandate has worked,”Evidence that people in the United States have been wearing masks for months and the cases exploded” noted senior fellow at standford medical center.
COVID-19 restrictions in Switzerland were more lenient during the second wave, compared to the first. Instead of quickly imposing far reaching restrictions, the focus was placed on reducing the burden on the health system. It’s CA one party system that you need to question.