I Was Overloading Myself
Listen as a UW student describes the burnout he experienced during the pandemic.
Pandemic Stories
I Was Distracting Myself Rather Than Decompressing
Listen as a UW student discusses how he navigated and improved his mental health after the pandemic.
Getting Information From Everywhere, Everyday
Listen as a UW student describes where he received information during the pandemic.
Everybody Was Talking About It All the Time
Listen as a UW student recalls how COVID-19 was all anyone would ever talk about for months on end.
Weighing the Pros and Cons of Learning in Person or Online
In this clip, listen as the Director of the Resilience Lab discusses the pros and cons of doing school online versus in person.
Staff Mental Health
In this clip, listen as Resilience Lab staff reflect on how, in prioritizing student needs and the impact of COVID-19 on students, there was a delay in recognizing how staff were also being impacted.
Seeing and Being Seen Multi-dimensionally
In this clip, Resilience Lab staff discuss how they managed to make connections and support one another during the pandemic.
Processing Together
In this is clip, a UW grad student describes what they did to process the changes in their work and student life within the pandemic.
Processing Doing Grad School Online
In this clip, listen as a grad student describes how they processed doing online grad school during the pandemic.
Prioritizing Health
In this clip, listen as Resilience Lab member and grad student discusses their perspective on hybrid options for class being normalized to let students still attend class while sick.
Navigating Conversations About Vaccine
In this clip, Resilience Lab staff discuss the difficulty of navigating conversations about vaccines during the pandemic and the added stress the controversy brought.
Mindfulness and Parenting
In this clip, the Director of the Resilience Lab reflects on moments during the pandemic where she would watch her son play and practice mindfulness by being fully present in his world with him.
It Feels So Unnatural to Not Hug My Parents Right Now
In this clip, the Director of the Resilience Lab tells of different stressors that affected her compounded by the pandemic.
It All Started to Blend Together
Listen as staff from the Resilience Lab reflect on how their lives changed with the start of the pandemic as their in person roles transitioned to being online and at home, blending all of their responsibilities together.
Balancing Escape Versus Connection
Listen as Resilience Lab staff discuss what it felt like to seek out and receive information about the pandemic in order to have some sense of understanding of what was going on.
Animal Crossing and the Pandemic
Listen as staff members of the Resilience Lab discuss the different coping mechanisms they enacted during the pandemic to distract themselves from the stress of the pandemic and find connection.
An Example of Care
Listen as the Director of the Resilience Lab describes how she participated in efforts to care for staff and their mental health during the pandemic under the leadership of the Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs.
Adapting to Work Being Online
Listen as members of the Resilience Lab and UW staff discuss how they adapted their work to being online.
Pandemic Perspective
Listen as the director of the Resilience Lab describes her perspective and the decisions she made during the pandemic.
Finding Our Own Rhythms
Listen to students share their experiences figuring out how to balance their lives and schoolwork.
Friendships Changing During the Pandemic
Listen to college students talk about how their friendships changed during the pandemic.
Guess Who Game
Listen to two students talk about the disorientating experience of starting college during the COVID-19 pandemic.
My Professor’s Concerns About COVID
Listen to a student talk about their professor’s concerns and experience with COVID-19.
Reflecting on the Difficulty of Classes
Listen to two college students discuss the relative difficulty of classes during the early pandemic.
Thinking About Dropping Out of School During COVID
Listen to two college students commiserate about their academic challenges throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Working for the 2020 Census
Listen to a college student talk about his experience working for the Census Bureau in 2020.
Realizing We’re Not Going Back
Listen to two college students talk about realizing they would not be going back in-person the next school year.
Black Lives Matter Narratives
Listen to the vice provost and a student in dialogue about Black Lives Matter narratives during the summer of 2020.
Build a Black Wall Street in WA State
Listen to a student athlete share his dream of building a “Black Wall Street” in Washington State.
Gong Back Home While Grown
Listen to a student reflect on what it was like to move back home because of pandemic lockdown.
I Learned How Resilient I Could Be
Listen to a student share with the vice provost what he learned about himself during the pandemic.
It Was Very Quiet in the Stadium
Listen to a college football player talk about his experience as the COVID-19 pandemic started and the university closed down.
Reactions in the Wake of the Murder of George Floyd
Listen to the vice provost and a student talk about what it was like in Seattle in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.
Student Athletes Are More Than Just Athletes
Listen to a student athlete share about his aspirations to the vice provost, who reflects on how we should see student athletes in their full humanity.
Teachers Made Virtual Tests Harder
professors would make virtual exams harder than in-person exams due to their lack of trust.
Uncertainties and Disparities
Listen to a student talk about the disparities faced by Black communities that were exacerbated by COVID-19.
Protecting Others in Uncertain Times
Listen to a grocery store worker share her perspective as an essential workers through the most intense part of quarantine.
Missing the Full College Experience
Listen to two students discuss their different college orientation experiences, one pre-COVID and one post-COVID.
Like Out of an Apocalypse Movie
Listen to a grocery store worker share their memories of sanitation duties during the early pandemic.
I Do Wish the University Took a Stronger Stance
Listen to a college student talk about confusions in understanding pandemic policies.
Daily Isolations
Listen to a student describe her daily life during COVID and the feelings of isolation.
COVID Continues to Impact Us
Listen to two college students reflect on how the pandemic continues to impact life.
Being Aware of Things You Didn’t Think About Before
Listen to a college student share how the COVID-19 pandemic made them aware of things they didn’t think about before.
Virtual Humanity
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate School shares how her leadership was founded on compassion and grace and trust and humanity.
Limits to Self Care
Listen as the Dean of the Graduate school describes the challenges she faced with practicing self care during the pandemic.
Intentional Ways of Connection
In this clip, the Dean of the Graduate School shares her leadership style.
How Do We Support Graduate Students
Listen as the Dean of the Graduate School discusses everything she and her team had to consider when the pandemic shut the university down.
Giving People Time Off
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate School discusses the leadership decisions she made during the pandemic and how a lot of those decisions came from trusting her staff.
Give People Grace
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate School describes her philosophy on work-life balance and how it came into play during the pandemic.
Dual Identity and Vulnerability
Listen as two Black women faculty commiserate about where and when they felt they could be vulnerable as they worked during the pandemic.
Dual Pandemics
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate school talks about how she experienced the dual pandemic in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
Dean, Mother, Black Woman
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate school discusses the unique set of intersectional stressors she faced during the pandemic.
Being a Rock
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate school vulnerably shares how she had to be a touchstone for her family, students, friends, and co-workers.
The Sense of Feeling Secure Doesn’t Exist Right Now
Listen as two graduate students discuss the continued uncertainty and insecurity and vulnerability they face with the pandemic.
Putting Others Before Ourselves
In this clip, listen as two graduate students discuss the ways in which the pandemic highlighted positive and negative aspects of humanity and what they themselves take away from the pandemic.
Pandemic Paranoia and the New Normal
Listen as two graduate students commiserate about how much their lives have changed since the pandemic and the habits they maintain as a result of the pandemic.
Pandemic Cohort Support
Listen as an international grad student shares their gratitude for the support they received from their cohort during the pandemic.
Life Hitting the Brick Wall of the Pandemic
In this clip, listen as a graduate student shares the challenges and changes they faced with starting graduate school in the pandemic.
Internatinal Grad Student Experiences
In this clip, listen as an international student shares the uncertainty surrounding graduate school during the pandemic.
I Became a Whole Different Person Than I Was in 2020
In this clip, a graduate student share how the pandemic has changed them.
I Had My Advisor… and That Was It
In this clip, listen as a graduate student shares where they received support from during the pandemic.
Altruism That Emerged From the Pandemic
Listen as two graduate students discuss the altruism that emerged in the way people behave towards each other after the pandemic.
Accessing Resources for Online Grad School
Listen as two graduate students discuss the ways in which they wish their department had considered supporting graduate students in more ways.
COVID in Classrooms
Listen as an Indigenous leader shares his experiences early in the pandemic as a middle school teacher.
Pandemic Parenthood
Listen as two Indigenous leaders share how they navigated teaching, working, and parenting from home during the pandemic.
Reimagined Grief
Listen as a husband and wife discuss what it looked like for them to grieve the loss of loved ones during the pandemic.
We Were the Only Ones Here
In this clip, listen as the doctors who identified COVID-19 in the U.S. discuss their particular perspective of having to go into work everyday when the rest of the world stayed home.
Thrust Into the Public’s Interest
Listen as the doctors who identified COVID-19 in the U.S. discuss how their work has changed since COVID and how they feel now that their work has a particular kind of spotlight as a result of the pandemic.
First Positive
In this clip, listen as the doctors who first identified COVID-19 recount the story of how they received the first positive COVID test result.
First Patient
Listen as the doctor who first identified COVID-19 in the U.S. recount their memory of drawing blood from the first COVID patient.
Teaching the Next Generation of Scientists and Doctors
In this clip, listen as the doctors who identified COVID-19 in the U.S. share how the virus has changed how much knowledge and interest the next generation of doctor’s has on respiratory viruses.
Providing Direct Community Support and Knowing Truth
Listen as the doctors and scientists who identified COVID-19 in the U.S. discuss how they were able to provide their community with support because they were on the frontlines and doing the research.
Distance of Safety – Blue Painters Tape
Listen as one of the doctors who identified COVID-19 in the U.S. shares a memory from the pandemic and how she provided care to patients amid shortages and safety procedures.
Childcare for Essential Workers
In this clip, listen as the doctors and scientists who identified COVID-19 in the U.S. share how challenging it was for them to find childcare during the pandemic.
Being Tired and Not Knowing When It’s Going to End
Listen as two UW doctors and scientists commiserate over the exhaustion they feel and not having a sense for when they will be able to take a break.
Why Did We March as a Family for BLM
In this clip, listen as a mother and son discuss memories and motivations they have of participating in the 2020 BLM marches.
Virtual School
In this clip, listen as a mother and son discuss the challenges of working and doing school virtually.
Trying Not to Get Lost in the New Normal
Listen as a mother and son discuss what it’s like for the world to reopen as the pandemic subsides a bit.
There Was a Risk but We Marched
Listen as a mother discusses her decision behind participating in the 2020 BLM protests with her children.
Putting Kindness Back In
Listen as a son shares with his mother his philosophy behind being involved in BLM – it is a way for him to be involved in putting kindness in where others might put hatred.
Pajamas on All Morning
Listen as a young boy shares the flexibility he had when learning at home because he could wear the clothes he wanted and spend his free time how he wanted.
Learning During COVID
Listen as a young boy shares his experiences with online school during the pandemic.
Leaders Like You
Listen as a young boy shares his excitement at receiving a letter from Kamala Harris after writing to advocate for people experiencing homelessness in a park nearby his home.
Kitchen Table
Listen as a mother shares just how much time her family spent around the kitchen table during the pandemic.
Kids Listen
Listen as a son share just how much he loves learning and how much he enjoys being part of and learning about politics.
Intentional Check Ins
Listen as a UW staff member shares how she became extremely intentional with using her time with students to check in on their mental, physical, and emotional health during the pandemic.
Family Time During COVID
Listen as a mother and son reminisce about how they spent time together as family during the pandemic.
Everything Was Going to Be Okay
In this clip, a mother shares with her son some of her fears around the uncertainty of the pandemic and how vulnerable she felt because of the uncertainty.
COVID’s Impact on Family Time
In this clip, a mother and son discuss how COVID-19 changed how their family time looked and how differently they socialize now.
Choosing Between Being at Home or Being at Work
In this clip, listen as a mother shares how the pandemic allowed her to be present for her family in ways she hadn’t been able to before the pandemic.
At the End of the Day You Got to Hold Each Other
In this clip, listen as a mother shares one part of pandemic life that she was grateful for – being able to hold her family when they hurt.