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Covid has been really rough on all of us so I know I'm not alone. I do lament though over how I am about to miss out on most of my first year at uni, in terms of socializing. I have a medical condition and my parents didn't want me to be at uni 5 hours away in case something happened to me and they weren't close enough. I've been given a vaccine ticket for Covid so I was hoping to go there this term but now we have lockdown and only med students are allowed on campus. By the time lockdown is over, there will only be a few weeks left and I've already been given a full rent rebate.

I don't really know anyone on my course, even the Whatsapp group conversations are about things that happened on campus or just work. All the online 'socials' are sparsely attended. I just wanna cry all the time. It hurts even more when I see people talking about how they've already chosen flatmates for last year. My student loans, sit, unused in my back account. I've half a mind to just give it all back sometimes.

Hopefully, I can at least attend in the summer term, although it will be exam season. I just wish they'd started lockdown three weeks earlier.

I guess I'm just venting. Next year my workload will be higher, I'm not sure I will ever have the chance to make up what I've missed. I often don't even want to attend seminars because it will just be a sea of black screens and limited conversation.

On the bright-side, I'm getting decent grades, grades I didn't expect. Always a silver lining I suppose.

Anyone else in a similar situation?