By Liliana Perez We are all experiencing an unprecedented time in history thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is all the more reason why we should be documenting the heck out of it. In a timeline from March 9 to April 27, a period of 50 days, I tracked what has been happening in the […]
Month: April 2020
A Tale of Two Cities
By Arielle Raveney Life during a pandemic is a surreal experience. If you are reading this, then you understand as you are also currently alive for a pandemic. To me, it is interesting how we as a globe get to experience this together yet also so separate. Though we may have a global solidarity in […]
Living in Quarantine
By Jorge Vargas Ashley Garza, a Junior at Texas State University, had the time to talk about how her situation has been since the start of quarantine. I was able to spend a couple of days with her and experience first hand how her way of living has changed. It is a strange situation at […]
Timeline Video of Texas State University Response To The COVID-19 Pandemic
by Roman Ysaguirre In early March, college campuses across the United States responded to the coronavirus pandemic by canceling club meetings, sporting events and in person class sessions. Texas State University responded within the same time frame. With rapidly updating information, it can become disorientating and overwhelming. This video serves as a reminder of the […]
Interview with Soon to be Nurse on What it is Like Becoming a Nurse During a Pandemic
By Giovante Amaya Ariel Gardner is a current nursing student at Texas State University. Ariel will be graduating in the spring of 2020 and has recently agreed to join a position in the Intensive Care Unit for Baylor Scott and White Hospital in Dallas Texas. She sat down for an interview explaining her reasoning for […]
Grocery stores catching back up amid pandemic shopping
By Belle Rushing, sbr55@txstate.edu HOUSTON– COVID-19 has scared many shoppers into believing that stocking up on items at home will keep them afloat during this time of social distancing. This has caused grocery stores across the country to be unable to meet the demands of shoppers. Items like toilet paper, hand sanitizer and cleaning products […]
What Third Grade Looks Like at Home
By Ally Bolenderalb304@txstate.edu THE WOODLANDS, TX — Fears of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) called for closures of schools all over the country. Conroe Independent School District (CISD) closed schools on April 17 for the rest of the semester. Carson Bolender is a third grade student at Coulson Tough Elementary of CISD. He began online school on March […]
How COVID-19 is impacting small businesses
Many businesses were forced to close or entirely change their way of business when the shelter-in-place mandates were put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. Local small businesses have been severely impacted because of this. Dean Siracusa, founder and president of both Orange Coworking and Summer Hawk Optics, said his businesses have been […]
Couple works together in quarantine
by Madison Ratcliff While many couples are experiencing the highs and lows of working from home with their partners for the first time, Michael and Melissa Ratcliff have already gotten the hang of it. Since the quarantine went into effect in March due to coronavirus, employees have transitioned to online work from their homes. For […]
Education vs. COVID-19 equals online learning
by Jaime Covarrubias AUSTIN—COVID-19 has made changes to everyone’s everyday routine. These changes can be getting used to not going to the park, not hang out with friends or family, not going to work, or even going to school physically. With IDEA Public Schools issued for all grade levels to have online learning for the […]