PODCAST: Welcome to Zoom University, Gators!

The class of 2024 is unlike any other group of first-year students SF State has seen. After enduring their final moments of highschool in Zoom meetings, these students are now entering a new chapter of their lives virtually. They will not experience the typical first-year experience at SF State – living in the haunted Mary Halls, having City Eats scrambled eggs for breakfast every morning, making lots of calls to home in tears … OK maybe there’s some projecting going on here.

Host Olivia Wynkoop (@oliviawynkoop) chats with three first-year students during their very first week of college to see how they’re adjusting to a new “normal.”

The students often refer to the possibility of in-person classes happening in the spring semester throughout the episode. As a note, these conversations were held before California State University announced it will remain virtual for the remainder of this academic year.

PHOTO: Outpour of gratitude, remembrance on steps of Supreme Courthouse for RBG

Washington D.C, September 23, 2020