I’m a student from Erasmus University. I had to attend my entire first year online and it feels boring and draining sometimes as well. It is very hard to have social contact when you are studying from home, because you don’t meet people and it’s a huge problem. The pandemic affected me in many ways, socially it was quite impactful in that sense. You don’t have many friends around and you don’t really meet different people. Mentally as well, because you are constantly at home and in front of a computer screen. This situation makes you feel really sad and isolated. The pandemic makes everything feel so short, it’s very hard to keep in contact with people and especially during the lockdown it is very hard to have a longer meeting with them. The pandemic made me so much more stressed and I'm way less social than I used to be. I want to be constantly at home and I feel unmotivated to work. I come from Egypt, but I’m very lucky that my entire family also lives in The Netherlands and I can go back and forth to visit them. However, my sister had covid during Christmas and besides not being able to visit them during this important time, I also felt very scared that my parents would get it too, luckily everything turned out just fine.