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Work/Life Experience during Covid-19

This was a poem written by a hockey mom team manager as part of an end-of-the-year gift to 14-year-old hockey boys from the Providence Hockey Club Tier 1 07 team.

I am a direct care worker who contracted COVID in may of 2020 after having to work directly with people I supported who tested positive. I needed to channel my mind and spirit into something in order to preserve my mental health during the horrifying…

Relocating in a Pandemic

Because we couldn’t trick or treat, we got dressed up anyway and did an indoor candy scavenger hunt around the house. We may just continue this next year!

As soon as it was confirmed that there was a pandemic and we were about to be in lock down, I learned how to make fabric face masks. I wanted to be able to make a lot in the event there was a shortage in the hospitals or if someone needed them.

The entire world knew the type of shutdowns necessary to prevent unnecessary Covid19 deaths, but our politicians decided to play politics instead

Olivia Dickinson is a senior applied physics and mathematics major at Providence College. A member of the track team, she shares the ways in which the pandemic has affected her season, her studies as a STEM major, and her summer research experience.…

Written reflection by Providence College senior Sarah Heavren on her experience conducting an oral history project that documents the Providence College community's pandemic experience.