With this research project, something I found a bit difficult doing is actually finding all of my resources. With City Tech’s library database I would get many results, but many of them were not useful to my research question. Many of the sources I had to read were pretty long as well, which was a nuisance. Furthermore, City Tech’s databases did not have many multimodal sources other than articles and research journals, so I needed to search through Google for different sources. As my research focuses on how college students suffered with their mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, I was surprised to find that more than 52% of mental health institutions had been closed. Even though people would focus on the physical symptoms, mental symptoms are equally as important. How could people who suffer from existing mental health issues get the help that they need? Or what about people who have developed them? The government needs to work on helping people in any way possible, which is something the US government failed to do, but many other countries have succeeded in. COVID-19 has brought forth how truly unequal society is. Something I learned that I can apply to future classes is to focus on what the abstract says for many of the articles/journals. I find that many of them have been helpful in providing an accurate summary of what the paper contains.
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Professor: Jessica Penner
Email: eng1121.citytech2@gmail.com
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 AM – 1 PM. I’ll be available through Zoom and will send an invitation via email that you should keep all semester. Try to join my meeting at the start of the hour, not at the end—since I may be talking to other students or have another appointment after the hour is up. If those times don’t work with your schedule, we can schedule a different time. This means you’ll have to schedule an appointment in advance via email. I suggest you have multiple times in mind, since your schedule may not mesh with mine!
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