Fawcett, Eliza. “The Pandemic Generation Goes to College. It Has Not Been Easy.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022, www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/covid-college-students.html.

In “The Pandemic Generation Goes to College. It Has Not Been Easy.” writer Eliza Fawcett goes in-depth with the generation that suffered from the pandemic in this case being high school students transferring over to college. Eliza explains that a lot of material that the students needed to absorb has been missed and not fully taught to them as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. She explores all the problems students had to face and the restrictions that were brought into place as a result. The complete absence from the school scenery slowly shifted them away from that experience. Eliza explains that students had difficulty even learning or staying on task due to outside factors occurring in their lives that unenabled them to stay focused.  As well as stated resources usually offered to students in school like extra help or 1 on 1 were not always available or frequent. Eliza quotes “The problems have been particularly bad for first-year students, said Paulo Lima-Filho, the executive director of the university’s math learning center, which provides tutoring” Eliza in quoting the executive director Paulo Lima-Filho explicitly shows the distress that exists within universities and the challenge first-year students face as a result from dealing with the pandemic, negatively hurting them as a result.

Sellers, Savannah, director. First Generation College Students Speak On Covid’s Impact | NBC News. YouTube, 2 Apr. 2021, https://youtu.be/IrDa5LMhhb0?si=izC3w03xOIKaJX2l. Accessed 12 Oct. 2023.

In “First Generation College Students Speak On Covid’s Impact” by NBC News speaker Savannah interviews two first year college students over their perspective over their college journey. Especially how it feels to be the first generation college students and how the lack of support for help made it difficult by also mentioning how covid impacted them. Rebecca shares how it was difficult to navigate through the change and how the problem of falling in debt really hurt college students. Savannah states ,”Students feel cutoff from support systems like guidance counselors” she puts out this statement beforehand including the opinion firsthnad of college students and how they are in agreement with that statement and by also including their own input of how they felt a lack of help and opportunities. Savannah’s statement is of extreme importance as it is one of the major complications that was created as a result of Covid-19 and the schools safety policies in effort to prevent spread.