The Internship Experience in Covid-19 Times | Part 1

It all begins in the weirdly warm December 2020. Covid 19 is incredibly prominent all over the world, and has been forcing millions, if not billions of people at home. December 2020 is also the month of a hopeful change happening all over the world. It's the hope of an effective vaccine being released and shipped to every Nation, to combat the invisible common enemy and begin the transition back to a life which resembles what life used to be, until some months prior. The 'normal' life made of social interactions, face-to-face university lessons, huge traffic jams at peak hours in the morning and evening, offices and restaurants packed with people during weekends.

I am a third-year university student, in December 2020. University is not the same, at that point in time. Not only for me, but for every student on planet Earth. Schools have not been the same for almost one year by then. Everything takes place remotely, and I spend the wide majority of my time in front of a laptop, on a safe and comfortable chair, with internet access and a dim winter light gently passing through the window behind my back. This has become normality. No more public transports to reach the university building. No more nerve-wrecking exams in a claustrophobic room with numerous other students. It has been the time of Webex meetings and exams. The time of silence and reflections and last-minute connections to the virtual lesson room.