Eastern Washington University Libraries is creating a digital archive detailing how COVID-19 impacted EWU and members of its community. First-hand accounts and expressions created during the pandemic can help future generations better understand what it was like to learn, work, and live during these uncertain times. We are calling upon you to contribute your journals, memories, creative writing, and photographs to create collectively a better record of how EWU experienced the pandemic.
For more information about submitting to the project, please visit the project website.
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Family connection during COVID pandemic
Vanessa Andrade
In this entry, the author describe changes in her family's communications that brought them closer together during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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When the Pandemic happened
Anonymous
In this entry, the author describes the escalating mitigation measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. They also write about finding a job to help their family.
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The pandemic affected everything
Alexa Martinez
The author describes the many impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes growing closer to close connections, the challenges of online schooling, and being cautious about going out.
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Life During a Global Pandemic
Roly
The author describes the challenges he experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic including low motivation, concern for family, and added responsibilities.
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How has the pandemic affected me?
Anonymous
The author describes the many ways the COVID-19 pandemic affected her life, including her health, work, and school
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A student's experience of the COVID-19 pandemic
Alma Castro
In this entry, the author describes the changes relating to quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, both personal and changes impacting students more broadly.
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Finding myself during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ashley
In this piece, the author describes personal growth during the pandemic as she spent time in quarantine with her family. She also included a photograph of a painting she made reflecting her growth.
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Working in a restaurant during the COVID-19 pandemic
Grace Byrd
In this entry, the author describes her experience working as a restaurant hostess during the COVID-19 pandemic where she sometimes took the brunt of people's frustration over the mask mandate. She also describes her life as businesses began to lay off employees during lockdown.
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A Mother's Dilemma
Nathan
This entry describes the author's challenges with mental health and contains a short essay describing the sacrifices made by the author's mother during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19: From an Epidemic to a Pandemic (a Student's Version)
Maribel Ortega-Ramirez
This poem describes the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States as the disease spread and mitigation measures expanded.
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Motivation during the COVID-19 pandemic
guadalupe
The author describes difficulty staying focused during the pandemic based in part on her learning style.
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Graduation during the COVID-19 pandemic
Kaisa Siipola
In this piece, the author describes her experience graduating from Eastern Washington University during the COVID-19 pandemic. She writes about completing her courses online, speaking with relatives over zoom, and hosting family family based on CDC guidelines in place during the spring of 2020. The post also includes two photographs of the author in cap and gown.
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Uncertainty, music, and the COVID-19 pandemic
Brooke
The author describes the pressures and anxieties arising over uncertainties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. These pressures related to employment, schoolwork, violence against people of color, and the inherent health concerns of living during a pandemic. The author describes the music she listened to during the different phases of her pandemic experience.
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Opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Angel Gutierrez
The author describes job opportunities during the pandemic, which allowed the author to purchase a used car and save up for college.
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In Hindsight
Christopher Moznette
In this reflection, the author describes the development of reactions to the pandemic as the virus and America's response to it developed from initial news of the outbreak in China to October 2021, nearly two years later. The author discusses reactions to news about the pandemic, online classes, and the Washington state mask mandate.
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Working at Valley Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic
Kate Corley
The author describes her experience working in the Emergency Department at Valley Hospital in the Spokane Valley. She also describes concerns about her family's health arising from their doubts about public health recommendations.
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Here's what I want right now
Anonymous
This submission is the authors journal entry dated August 1, 2020 and is comprised largely of a list of things she wants at that point during the COVID-19 pandemic. She concludes with a description of how the author connects with her partner.
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My mask
Linda Safford
The author describes her masks, habits regarding masks, and her opinions on face coverings.
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Loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic
Anonymous
The author describes the challenges of finding joy and satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Challenges faced include attempting to adapt to online teaching, mourning the death of a cousin, and dealing with marital stress.
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What the pandemic revealed
Jake Rehm
In this submission, the author describes frustration over a number of things he has heard communicated during the pandemic. Topics discussed include partisanship and misinformation.
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Finals during COVID-19
EMC
The author provides journal entries from March 8, 2020 and March 15, 2020. During this time, she learns that Eastern Washington University (EWU) moved finals week up a week, allowing students to move out for Spring break a week early. She also describes the escalating mitigation steps that resulted in general quarantine and movement of all EWU classes online.
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The Ketchwitz Legends Book 1
Titan
This is a story the author started to work on "out of boredom" during COVID-19.
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Life decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic
Samantha Ferrell
The author describes the early days of the pandemic in Seattle, moving to eastern Washington to begin graduate school, starting graduate school online, trying to plan a wedding during COVID, and eventually adopting a dog.
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When all the chaos started
Rosie Erechar
The author describes the various challenges the COVID-19 pandemic presented to her family and professional life. She describes her experience as a new mother, a wife of a husband with an ailing parent, and losing her job as a result of the economic downturn caused by the pandemic.
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Good and bad of the COVID-19 pandemic
Jose L. Diaz
This entry describes the way the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the author's life both negatively and positively.
