“I’m better off in person because I’m actually told to do my work and I can actually focus. At home, I just get out of focus and I forget to do stuff, so it really just affected me in that way with procrastination. And I can’t walk up to my teacher and ask him for help right then and there—I have to email and wait and then I just forget, so it takes a while for that.” -Matthew Seely, 18, chemistry

“The outage took me by surprise, but I feel like because of the whole pandemic, we’re already familiar with doing online stuff, so we kind of already knew what we were gonna end up doing.” -Neleiyah Starling, 20, psychology

“I always hated online school, so it was kind of confusing. I missed one of my classes, and I was just really mixed around because I’m still kind of new to Canvas.” -Kamiya Dilworth, 19, surgical technology and biology

“It affected me by not really being able to connect with my classmates, especially if we’re going to be doing projects.” -Cynthia Ortiz, 18, digital media

“I have a lot of siblings that have to get dropped off and stuff, so it kind of affected stuff. Like how I have to stay home and work instead of being there, but I mean I like staying home, so it wasn’t a problem for me.” – A’mare Williams, 19, kinesiology

“It affected my printing capabilities and my teaching resources because my teachers didn’t know how to work the internet really well on Zoom.” – Tachae Hankerson, 27, nursing

“I think it was really hard for me, especially because I am a STEM major and because my classes relied on those labs. It was really hard to make it up and going on two more of the classes and lectures because now we are kind of behind. Especially because science classes are really hard to understand, so lectures have been crazy.” -Lani Khang, 19, STEM major