{"id":6248,"date":"2021-09-10T17:50:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T22:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2021-09-10T17:50:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T22:50:52","slug":"maroons-talk-return-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6248","title":{"rendered":"Maroons Talk: Return to Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6249\" src=\"https:\/\/bka.roanoke.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/pexels-ketut-subiyanto-4881003-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Marisa Seager<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lillian Pingel, a junior from Waynesboro, VA:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI&#8217;m really excited to be back in classrooms this year! It is much easier to retain information and focus during class time.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carrie Lloyd, a senior from Lynchburg, VA:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI have mixed feelings concerning the return to campus for in-person classes. On one hand, I think I learn best when I\u2019m in a classroom interacting with the professors and my peers. This might be a selfish thought during COVID, but I am so tired of masks and distancing. It feels so draining mentally. However, I also understand the potential dangers and health risks associated with in-person classes during the pandemic. I hope that our campus community can work together to keep Roanoke College as safe as possible.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexzandra Wright, a sophomore from Gloucester, VA:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI like being in-person for classes. I finally get to meet some of the teachers that I only saw through Zoom or talked to through email, and it&#8217;s nice to not have to stare at a computer screen all day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marisa Seager Lillian Pingel, a junior from Waynesboro, VA: \u201cI&#8217;m really excited to be back in classrooms this year! It is much easier to retain information and focus during class time.\u201d\u00a0 &nbsp; Carrie Lloyd, a senior from Lynchburg, VA: \u201cI have mixed feelings concerning the return to campus for in-person classes. On one hand,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folks-at-noke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}