M.C., a medicine student in Nairobi, Kenya

When I heard that we would be breaking for the quarantine period due to corona pandemic on Monday March 9th I was kinda relieved and grateful for the holiday, which I expected to be short. I had a pharmacology test on that Monday which I had spent my entire weekend trying to memorise the different Antimuscarinic drugs and other complex words in pharmacology. This meant that the test was pushed which was good for me. I had more time to study. However after 1 month of staying at home I was no longer relieved and wanted to resume school to finish up my semester and move to the next class. Due to this pandemic my school introduced online classes which have been going on well for about the last 3 weeks. Personally I like that the lecturers deliver well. Only problem is home is not a very good environment to study medicine as we dont have access to the labs and even group discussions are not very easy to hold as people come from different places with some having poor network coverage online discussions being hard to hold. Hopefully we will get a cure to this virus and resume school; for once I miss the school environment.

[submitted on 5/13/2020]

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