Jenna Goldsmith, the professor of the course, assigned students to write two journal entries per week, of any length, about their experiences as college students during a global pandemic, and to choose a selection of their entries to appear in the book. Together the entries paint a picture of students transitioning to a college experience that was unlike what they had imagined. “There really is no college in COVID-19. It may still exist in some reduced form, but it isn’t truly a college,” Spencer V. wrote in an entry from which the book’s title is taken. “Something is wrong. You can just feel it in class, when you go to get your food, when you try to fall asleep at night. It feels like a hastily cobbled facsimile.”
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/12/20/students-reflect-starting-college-during-pandemic
