Morning Call (April 28, 2020): Music teachers helped Moravian College sophomore Elaine Ramirez get through school as a child. The medical field always called to sophomore Elliott Guido, whose parents are a paramedic and an emergency medical technician. As a child in the Philippines, Lehigh University sophomore Adrian Suarez found a lifesaving source of self-expression in the spoken word, particularly after losing his father on his 13th birthday.
“Poetry was my means of connecting with that part of pain and grief that I didn’t have the words for at that time,” he explained, shortly before putting his creative juices to work in a remote hip-hop theater class.
These aren’t the fields of study one typically envisions completing online, but that’s exactly what college students around the country — even in the most hands-on fields — have had to reckon with for the second half of the spring semester.
At Lehigh Valley colleges, finals are on as planned for the beginning of May, albeit in different and equally strange circumstances.
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