I am bored. I have done the same thing each day for the past two weeks. I will probably do the same thing for the next four weeks. Being locked in my house has made me feel extremely lazy. I have found myself to be tired all the time. I take senseless naps as if sleeping more will pass the time until we can go back to normal life. My normal routines have changed drastically. On weekends, I sleep till around 2 pm, wake up, and start my day. During weekdays, I roll out of bed around 9:00, go to my desk, and turn my computer on. I join the zoom call and take the next 15 minutes to even wake up. It is not until halfway through class that I am fully focused. I sit there and listen to the teacher talk and he or she screen-shares the notes. Frankly, I thought Zoom classes would be terrible, but in my experience so far, I haven’t found them to be much of a struggle. As long as I follow along and don’t sidetrack, I am understanding the material. I usually go back to sleep after classes are over.
The hardest part of being quarantined for me is not being able to go to the gym. I have been lifting consistently for the past few years. On a normal day, I would spend close to 2 hours working out. Lifting and working out have become something I have become extremely passionate about. It is a time where I can put my headphones on, blast my music, and better myself with no distractions. Since being home, all of the local gyms have closed their doors because the virus would spread easily when you are using the same equipment as many other people. Working out in a basement is just a different environment. There is a lack of equipment and motivation, and it is just not the gym.
I miss the sense of structure in my life. I miss always having something that I can do, or someone I can hang out with. I often can’t find anything to do. I feel as if I am just wasting my time nowadays. I would much rather be at school.

Tommy,
I appreciate your honest attitude throughout your post! Often times, people try to “fluff” or try to make a situation better by lying and saying everything is okay, when in reality, it is really affecting them and their daily life. I really appreciate how you jumped right into your post, stating “I am bored.” This is how majority, if not all of us are feeling, and the way you attacked this prompt head on shows the honest and raw feelings portrayed in your writing.
-Sydnee Schapiro
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I really like how your post directly answered what the professor was asking. I enjoyed the second line where you say “I have done the same thing each day for the past two weeks”. This has become the new reality of our lives. Another line I enjoyed was where you said “Its not until halfway through the class that i’m fully focussed”. I find this line to be very true. Often times during the live class it takes time to get fully into whatever you are learning about
-Mihalis Hrisafinis
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Tommy, I really like how open and honest you were in this post. I think almost all of us can relate to what you were writing about. Missing the structure of life, having an incredibly messed up sleep schedule, having to change and/or developed new workout habits since the gyms are closed. I really enjoyed the simplicity of what you had to say. You answered this prompt in a way that very very straight forward and during a time that seems to continuously get more and more complicated every day, I found reading your writing to be a welcome break from all of it.
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Sometimes, going right into what you feel is the right way to express it. I really like how you started so bluntly, it actually made me laugh because at least I know now that I am not the only one who does similar things of being bored and somewhat of being a couch potato. I also liked your title because we are all wondering the same thing…. when will it actually be over? We don’t know but stay strong and productive!
-Mya Mostrom
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