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Rachele Salvini - 26

 

We are both PhD students in English at OSU. We're international students, so quarantine has been hard because of the distance from home and because of the uncertainty of our future and occupation. Rebecca is German; I'm Italian. Rebecca has a boyfriend and I'm single, but we're good friends, and we went through quarantine together. I feel like quarantine brought us closer, which is a silver lining. We both ate too much and watched a lot of bad movies together (but, to be fair, also some good ones). We were both fairly productive, I think, which is a silver lining too. The worst thing about quarantine for me is not being able to see friends and family, since I'm a social animal. But, as I said, there were silver linings for sure!