Ways to Spend Time During COVID-19
Welcome back from your stay-at-home summers! Learn about ways you might consider spending your time doing now, and learn what OHS students have done in the past few months while staying at home.
Interacting with others
As an OHS student, you are likely accustomed to online interaction. OHS students have scheduled calls to keep up with friends. While the school year has started back up and you might be busier, it’s great to schedule these every so often.
If you are new to OHS, welcome! It may be harder to become acclimated to the social environment without the traditional start-of-year meetups, but you can definitely meet people through classes, clubs (like Pixel Journal!), and other social groups.
Working with people globally
Some OHS students have organized online programs, formed online communities for students or created online platforms, and brought their perspectives and insights on online learning to their own geographical regions. This past summer, Ilana Nguyen ’22 ran a virtual programming and entrepreneurship camp with members from across the US, inspiring students around the globe to design and implement entrepreneurial ideas. Rishit Das ’22 and Finn Boyle ’22 have been working on a community for learning about consciousness.
Helping during COVID-19
To help with the COVID-19 efforts, OHS students have been sewing face masks, 3D-printing face shields, and producing other needed materials in the past few months. Some OHS students have been contributing to other causes related to activism, and some have been working on art and music services.
Taking care of your health
It’s certainly great to be creating positive change in your community, but as I’m sure most people will tell you, you’ll need time for other things. If you have more free time on your hands, perhaps due to canceled activities, you might consider getting more sleep, talking more with your family, or doing anything else that interests you—something other than homework that hopefully provides you an escape from the OHS workload.
For any topic that you’re interested in, there is probably something available for it online. Zooniverse, a large citizen science platform, has seen a boost in participation since the pandemic started (as have many other online platforms), and many museums and other venues now have online exhibits.
If you like to go outdoors, you might observe the clouds every day where you live or explore nature in general while being socially distanced.
This post has referenced “Helping Communities During COVID-19” by Andrew Chiang ’21 from the June 2020 OHS Connection.