This second episode of Looking Back, a three-part audio series, features Washington University students and administrators discussing the University’s safety procedures over the last year.

COVID-19 quarantine brought isolation and prevented student-athletes from accessing typical training materials. How did they cope with it?

Senior musicians Mitch Frauenheim and Aalisha Jaisinghani reflect on how COVID-19 has shaped their experiences this fall.

What music got 15 Student Life staffers through 2020?

After receiving the dreaded contact tracing call, staff reporters and suitemates freshmen Julia Robbins and Olivia Poolos were sent into quarantine housing for 10 days.

I’m writing this to hopefully help ease some of the anxiety that people might have going into quarantine and give some tactics that might make your time quarantining somewhat easier. So without further ado, let me share with you the (un)definitive extrovert’s guide to quarantining.

Do not focus on the light at the end of the tunnel, it’s still too far away to see. Rather, force your eyes to adjust to the darkness, and, before you know it, it will be much easier to see.

Even with the cancellation of spring sports, Wash. U. athletes are staying in shape from home.

At the beginning of the month, Washington University announced its virtual talent competition, WashU’s Got Talent, on the official University Instagram page.

Maybe, if I, like the NBA players trying so hard to relate to me, had in-home access to weight racks and a full-sized gym and a treadmill or elliptical, I might be able to stay active.