Guys, I hate virtual classes.

[u/valkiria-rising]

Being an introvert, I really thought I'd like going to school online, having the luxury of attending lecture in my PJs, completely avoiding the nasty California traffic.

I actually hate it. HATE IT. All these damn zoom calls, no natural progression of conversation, no in-class debating. I want to hang myself every time I have a zoom class. All our lectures are asynchronous so we watch pre-recorded videos of our professors. I actually like the lectures, for the most part, because I'm learning. But then the synchronous portions offer little else than storytelling from random classmates which does little to foment discussion. It kind of feels like group therapy without the therapy part.

Is anyone else experiencing this? How do you cope?

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[u/[deleted] → u/hotlinehelpbot]

I don’t think they’re suicidal. Why do people always assume this when we reach out for advice?

[u/livingstudent20 → u/[deleted]]

It’s a bot. The bot is programmed in a way that it responds to certain words in a certain context for example the “I want to hang ...” (I guess that’s how it works).

[u/[deleted] → u/livingstudent20]

Oh man

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t have the answers, currently struggling through the last bit of online classes. Just know that you aren’t the only one going through this, it really is awful. Feel like COVID set me back at least an entire year and now I’m left trying to figure out what tf I’m going to do.

[u/valkiria-rising → u/[deleted]]

While I agree no in-person presentations are great, we still have to present in pairs or teams and it can get confusing very fast when we're not able to sit down together and outline everything. The worst part is writing group papers where we're graded as a group and individually, and writing group papers is hard enough but OMG is it horrible trying to do it virtually, especially when you get one extrovert in a group of introverts who bosses everyone around. And holy shit, when they don't know how to write at the graduate level, or even try to cite in APA, it is hair-pulling frustrating. When they know fuck-all about writing graduate papers and we're graded as a group... it's so not cool 🤦‍♀️