Dear Anita

Watching the U.S. news, the president says that quarantine may last eight weeks or more as researchers work on a vaccine for the coronavirus. The coronavirus is mostly serious for people who are elderly, very young or have immune system problems but if a healthy person gets it they likely will be okay. Since researchers don’t know how the virus acts in complete details yet, they think that the research on the coronavirus will take a year to eighteen months until the research is good enough, but they are hoping to develop a vaccine by May to prevent more people getting the virus. Hope you are well and don’t stress yourself too much. I have been thinking of a neuroscience minor because the classes for neuroscience aren’t too difficult and I know some of the professors that teach them are quite helpful. Also the brain is fascinating and there are some mental  health classes in the minor concentration for neuroscience. I don’t know what major to currently switch to but I’m considering Health Sciences because all my credits transfer and it’s still relevant to a career field in the medical sciences requiring lesser lab work. But I feel like I’m still interested in Biochemistry because I’ve been studying it for three years and a lot of my career ties are there so changing it seems a bit difficult. So I have started to work on meditation for my anxieties and I find that it helps lessen it a bit and work on building my focus. I didn’t receive the approval for the medical withdrawal because my GPA was good and since I had a Bursar’s hold for having a balance owed of $927.00 due to the subsidized loan that was returned to the federal education department that hold was an obstacle for requesting the medical withdrawal appeal. I might be able to revisit the counselors the fall 2020 semester and after talking with them for a while perhaps be able to have the Learning Access Program provide me accommodations such as extended time for assignments and other things. Since my anxiety is directly linked to gender dysphoria I find that being involved in the transgender community online is helpful and once quarantine is over I hope that the LGBTQ safe space reopens so that I can spend time there while on campus.