Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Yep...can’t disagree with any of that. Difficult times.
Feel really sorry for youngsters about to begin or those who’ve already had their first year interrupted...should be such an important time...but I do think the Oxbridge colleges who, some time ago, took the decision to cancel ‘live’ lectures for the forthcoming year, showed far more vision and foresight than those in ‘power’.
My youngest is amongst the "interrupted first year" group and is going back to a very different second year experience to that which his older brother had just 4 years earlier. Virtual lectures, 3 hours contact time a week (even that is now questionable) and a curtailed lifestyle.

But he has adjusted to it and is ready to get going on his next year. Kids (or at least he) are more resilient and able to accept the new normal. He has his group of friends, 4 of them in a house and may be doing more drinking from home than you or I but will still learn independence which is important.

It may be a different learning experience than the generation before, but he's young enough to be adaptable. My worry is not his learning but his job prospects following graduation.