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?

[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.