I consider the "hard" stage of the pandemic from March 2020 to January/February 2021 but specially the first three months when nobody saw it coming and didn't know how to react. What I liked about this period was:
-Didn't have to wake up early for class and didn't have to commute
-Didn't have to deal with shitty classmates or feeling jealous of others' succesful uni lives
-It was much easier to pass because we could cheat (university too poor to afford proctorio or similar software)
-I could get in virtual class, mute it and do other stuff with no one noticing
On the other hand staying at home all day was really boring and even depressing (never thought I would say that kek) and I lost a lot of motivation for my studies during this time, but still passed. Then on September 2020 we were still with online classes but professors were much better organised so it was more work and more difficult but still easier than face-to-face classes. I'm happy I spent my last semesters of uni online. But I think that those who were in the opposite situation of me (first and second year students) are now fucked because getting used to face-to-face teaching after online is much harder.
-Didn't have to wake up early for class and didn't have to commute
-Didn't have to deal with shitty classmates or feeling jealous of others' succesful uni lives
-It was much easier to pass because we could cheat (university too poor to afford proctorio or similar software)
-I could get in virtual class, mute it and do other stuff with no one noticing
On the other hand staying at home all day was really boring and even depressing (never thought I would say that kek) and I lost a lot of motivation for my studies during this time, but still passed. Then on September 2020 we were still with online classes but professors were much better organised so it was more work and more difficult but still easier than face-to-face classes. I'm happy I spent my last semesters of uni online. But I think that those who were in the opposite situation of me (first and second year students) are now fucked because getting used to face-to-face teaching after online is much harder.
