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I didn't realize how much I was internalizing my daughter's stress over her big linguistics lab until she submitted it last night & we celebrated with her. I am so proud of her. Last year she took introductory linguistics and did very well in it.
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That was her first ever on-campus course; up to then she had taken all her courses online bc of anxiety issues due to #autism. Her first foray onto campus was a success, but then Covid meant returning to remote study for this year. But she has adjusted.
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She's transitioned to attending Zoom lectures -- another whole new way of learning after just getting used to being on the university campus. And she works hard. One key has been the university's flexibility & accommodations for students with disabilities (even going so far
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as to grant her the entrance scholarship she'd been offered, even though her course load was only 40% when she started; they just split the funding into 2 parts & gave her the 2nd half when she'd completed a certain # of courses and grade level).
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It's extremely eye-opening to be in the position of teaching an online university course during Covid AND living with a kid taking online university courses during Covid. It reminds me as an instructor to go that extra step with my students: check up on them if they've
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dropped off-radar, avoid making assumptions, & be a positive presence. One student said in his term-end reflection that doing the work in my course was "oddly comforting." Given what we've gone through in 2020, I think being "oddly comforting" is a worthwhile achievement.
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