College campus experience during COVID-19: My two weeks at UNC ended with me moving out with COVID-19.

College campus experience during COVID-19: My two weeks at UNC ended with me moving out with COVID-19.



This diary from Jasmine Baker, an 18-year-old first-year student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been condensed and edited for clarity from a conversation with Heather Schwedel.
At the beginning of August, I moved into Granville Towers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a freshman. Classes started Aug. 10. The next week, while I was in an in-person class, we got an email that said all classes were going to be moved to online. The email was very vague about housing. There were no specifics. Everyone kind of started freaking out. We’d only been there for a week. All we knew was that all the classes were going online. We learned about it at the same time the professors did.
 Now it’s three weeks later, and I’ve already moved out—and I am positive for COVID-19.



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