COVID-19 Interview
September 15, 2020
Rena Ketelsen, an international sophomore soccer player at Morningside College, shares her thoughts on COVID-19 on campus. She describes COVID, in general, as annoying and that students are selfish in how they handle it. “Students are really reckless and selfish.”
What she means by, “reckless and selfish” is that a lot of students don’t wear their masks or don’t follow the guidelines for COVID, especially with quarantine. If the college were to go into lockdown, international students can’t just go home quickly. Rena also mentioned how the college isn’t handling the structure of COVID very good.
She talked about how before every soccer game students have to be screened for COVID or COVID related symptoms. They also have to be tested before practice every once in a while. During one practice, she mentioned, a few soccer players weren’t feeling the best. They were told to go back to their dorms and quarantine and that the nurse would call them. Rena stated that the nurse never called the students and the students roommates had no idea what to do because they were in close contact, but didn’t have symptoms.
Colleges are handling COVID in unique ways, some ideas work and some ideas don’t. Rena mentioned that if one college is fairing better than others, maybe the other colleges should adapt to ideas like the one college doing better.
September 23rd, 2020 at 6:44 pm
Good overall, Ashley. I like that you end it when you run out of info. A couple of things:
When you write, “Rena also mentioned how the college isn’t handling the structure of COVID very good.” You need to ask for an example, and explain to the reader. Also, “very well.”
The lead: Morningside’s “Rena Ketelsen…describes COVID, in general, as annoying and that students are selfish in how they handle it. “Students are really reckless and selfish.” In the next graf ID her as an international student, soccer player.