When you first go on a roller coaster, you are filled with a nervous feeling. You make up scenarios about what could go wrong. The ride could stop out of nowhere when you are half way through the loop. Your seat buckle could go loose and you can go flying through the air. However, with all these scenarios you have created, you still decided to go on. A roller coaster has many ups, downs, twists and turns. If you were a first timer, you wouldn’t know what to expect. If I could describe distant learning it would be a roller coaster of emotions.

When the first two weeks of quarantine started, I wasn’t too worried about school, as everything at that moment was voluntary. I would check my teacher’s announcements from time to time. But, I felt pretty relaxed. I got more than eight hours of sleeps each night. However, it started feeling boring. My parents wouldn’t let me out, not even to get food, and all I could do was watch movies or sleep. Then when the teachers got the go to start teaching again, I started to have things to do. All of my teachers were very lenient on their assignments. However, I took that to advantage and thought I could do their assignments the day it was due. In some cases, this technique worked out fine. But, for some other classes, I had to stay up all the way to 5 in the morning to finish and turn it in on time. Note to self: Don’t procrastinate.

My classes also had tests and quizzes. This was my least favorite thing ,even at home, I still felt stressed. I worried if I would have enough time to finish, if I even got the right answer, if I would sleep through the test taking period, or if it would affect my grade. I would do really well on some tests and really horrible on others, but it balanced out.

Then a policy came stating that our grades could not go any lower than what we had before March 13th. My grades were pretty decent at that time, but I could always improve. This led me to continue to do my assignments as many of my friends stopped. I would have days where I would feel very motivated. I wanted to finish all of my homework and stay on top of things. However, there also came many days where I had no motivation. My calendar would have so many due dates, but all I could think about was finishing the current Korean drama I was watching.

Towards the end of a roller coaster, you are filled with a happy feeling. Some people are happy that it is finally over and just want to get off that thing monstrous thing. While some people are so happy and want to even go again. Now that this school year is coming to an end, I don’t really mind distant learning at all. I had the ability to learn at my own pace and doing things whenever and wherever. I would rate this experience 10 out of 10 would totally do it again (if needed).