Tessa Mazzarella oral history interview

Tessa Mazzarella oral history interview

Lewis, Rebecca E.

Mazzarella, Tessa

Tessa Mazzarella was a Biomedical Engineering major at Drexel University at the time of this interview. Tessa Mazzarella describes the personal impact of COVID-19, including difficulty in maintaining a work-life balance as Drexel shifted to online classes. Tessa Mazzarella reflects on the lack of awareness of COVID-19 in January 2020 and describes the changing perceptions throughout the course of the pandemic, highlighting the changes toward the end of March 2020 as businesses shut down and schools shifted to online classes. Tessa Mazzarella shares the impact of COVID-19 on the cooperative education experience. This interview describes news and media coverage of COVID-19 throughout the pandemic, including social media coverage and observing contrasting attitudes towards health safety precautions. This interview concludes with thoughts on possible positive outcomes of the pandemic, such as normalization of mask wearing and accessibility of online classes.

This interview was conducted during HNRS 301: COVID-19, taught by Scott Knowles during summer quarter 2020.

COVID-19 seminar oral history interviews (Collection MC.00.100), Drexel University Archives

COVID-19 (Disease)

Education, Higher

Education, Cooperative

COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects

Mass media and public opinion--United States

Social media

Work-life balance

Web-based instruction

Listen to the audio recording of this interview and read a raw transcript in Drexel University's digital repository.

interviews

August 26, 2020

English

35:01 minutes

Lewis, Rebecca E.

Mazzarella, Tessa