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serendipitous interactions with people I haven't seen in a while

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serendipitous interactions with people I haven't seen in a while

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The elders who we lost (to COVID and other things) but who we couldn't celebrate in person because of COVID.

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The elders who we lost (to COVID and other things) but who we couldn't celebrate in person because of COVID.

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Students and their keen insights.

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The nurses and doctors and caretakers and hospital workers

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The nurses and doctors and caretakers and hospital workers

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all the teaching and social work we have been doing over the last 2 years

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all the teaching and social work we have been doing over the last 2 years

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Opportunity for spontaneous conversation

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a relief! We can start to feel like a community again.

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Seeing and talking to my students in person. Walking to stores without masks

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Being able to spend some time with family and friends a bit more frequently

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Being able to spend some time with family and friends a bit more frequently

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reading literature with students in person. There's nothing like it!

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reading literature with students in person. There's nothing like it!

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A world before, to acknowledge how different the world is now. 

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A world before, to acknowledge how different the world is now. 

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Friends and loved ones

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These days it's kind of spooky because it's still pretty empty

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These days it's kind of spooky because it's still pretty empty

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being reminded that teaching is the primary reason I'm at BC.

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All who are people of good will everywhere working toward equity

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All who are people of good will everywhere working toward equity

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all the people who have lost during the pandemic, and the essential workers who continue to keep us safe and fed

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now longer looking at black screens during Zoom sessions. It's great to see the students

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now longer looking at black screens during Zoom sessions. It's great to see the students

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I'm not back on campus yet, but I am joyful about the flexibility that comes with working remotely.

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I'm not back on campus yet, but I am joyful about the flexibility that comes with working remotely.

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laughter, music, good food w/ good people

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Jay Janklewicz

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allowing us to do the work we were hired to do.

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The ways we come together to support each other when it's most needed.

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The ways we come together to support each other when it's most needed.

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what we've been through, what we've learned

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a Phone call to Mitzu Adams in SUBO to request a room for chairs to meet in person was NOT an in-person experience, but hearing each other's voice made us both extremely happy, joyous! as if we both were in person!

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a Phone call to Mitzu Adams in SUBO to request a room for chairs to meet in person was NOT an in-person experience, but hearing each other's voice made us both extremely happy, joyous! as if we both were in person!

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All the essential workers, even the delivery people and for sure the medical staff of all the hospitals and urgent care facilities.

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Hearing people laughing (students, staff, faculty) in nearby offices and the hallway

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weird and new and confusing and fun and exciting all at once

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is wonderful after missing our students & colleagues the past few years

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is wonderful after missing our students & colleagues the past few years

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our colleagues and students who were so resilient to transition both into pandemic mode and  back to some sense of "normalcy."

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Corinne didn't die of Covid, but what did that matter?  her absence is felt by us in the English department every day.  We are continuing (I am continuing!) to find out how much she did to make the department run!

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Corinne didn't die of Covid, but what did that matter?  her absence is felt by us in the English department every day.  We are continuing (I am continuing!) to find out how much she did to make the department run!

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John Hamill, former director of communications, who passed away in September 2020.

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John Hamill, former director of communications, who passed away in September 2020.