The opportunity of the crisis

23/04/2020

Dear diary,

As I said before I am very privileged, and one of the main factors to think that is the role of my university EAFIT, in my life. The transition was not easy, because I really like to go to my university and receive class. I am not one of those students that is always in the university just doing anything. You can easily say that I just go, attend to class, and go back home, but I am still thankful with the effort and efficiency that EAFIT has put on this process. It was not easy to move from a physical space to my laptop and just do everything on it, I think that it was very quick and I have many distractions in my home. However, everything is possible so it is a matter of putting my part too and adapting became easier thinking like that and not just complaining. I think that my professors have done everything on their hands and without them, this process would be a lot more difficult. I felt great being conscious that my professors are not just giving us work (ok I have a lot of work, but in a proper way), they do care about classes and students. I also want to point out how organized my university is, and how it adapted everything in an excellent way (at least in my case). I know about some other institutions which behavior during this crisis made me think that I made the right choice when choosing EAFIT, and of course, that makes me feel privileged. Ok ok... having classes online is not perfect and I would love to return to my normal classes, even with the fact that I live far from EAFIT. However, this whole situation made me think that what we really love is our environment, and changing that in one week cause a huge shock. But in order to get my point I am going to explain you better. I love to wake up, eat my breakfast, take the bus, be on my university, see my friends, comeback to my house, go to the aquatic complex, play my weird sport, comeback to my house, talk with my girlfriend, and go to bed. That’s my routine, that’s my life, and I am happy with it, but now I realize that what really changed is the environment, because (at least in my case) I conserve the same life, I just need to adapt it to these new circumstances. Crisis often bring good changes and I hope this is one of those cases. For example in my case, it made me think about mi capacity of adaptation because at the end of the day, virtuality is the future and many things are going to change. Having classes online is a challenge right now, but it is the near future, so don’t look at it as something bad, this is our opportunity to have that first contact, adapt, and be better prepared for what its coming.