Adjusting on the Go

With the Covid 19 pandemic still being an ever present factor of our daily lives, it can sometimes make it difficult for a college student. For me, it was accommodating my work schedule to the newly renovated hours of the on-campus lab I worked for. The lab itself had to change dramatically to also accommodate for the new guidelines and protocol necessary for our health. Things like reworking the lab materials shown and used that now had to fit into a tiny 50 minute window compared to the previous open lab with constant access for the students has proven to be difficult to adapt to. Needing to transition hundreds of photos, lecture materials, articles, and almost entire labs online proved to be a challenge that we were the least bit prepared for. All of these things had to be accomplished each week with such short amounts of time to complete, and very little warning in when it needs to be completed by. With new difficulties showing up at each new turn it was not something that we could just whistle a tune to while breezing right through it. So many hardships and quests it did not seem like we would ever make our way to the end. We saw this challenge and tackled it head on. When we started the semester we promised students that we would deliver the material they needed to become a successful. As a part of Purdue’s institution we do not break our promises. Through many hours and weeks and plenty of help from others that could solve our troubles and speed bumps we encountered we delivered the material as promised. We decided to not bow our heads to the problem and let it walk all over us. Even with a major pandemic working its way through the entire world Purdue was still able to deliver an education for those that desired it. “When there is a will, there is a way.”-Pauline Kael