we all know that this pandemic changes eveything. The way we live, the way interact with people and also how our lives going. In this time of pandemic there are lot of changes and one of the changes is how our schoo works. From the face to face to Online learning. We have two type of learning, the synchronous and Asynchronous.

The Asynchronous is more on modular, the teachers give the students module to answer and it will pass on time, while the Synchronous classes there are online interaction. The teachers with teach their students live online. Now, we are taking mixed classes that sometimes we take online teaching and sometimes our teacher gives only recorded videos and modules to be answered.

As a student who took online, at first I thought that it will be easy because you will not go to school, and you will not spent more hours on travel and to prepare. But the things didn't came out of what I expected. From the thought that it will be easy for me to the thought that thinking if I can finish my study.

Now I took a cours of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. And as a Mechanical Engineer, we have 21 units and those unit is more of mathematic subject from Physics, Differential Calculus, Statics and Thermodynamics. All of this subjects are difficult for me to understand.

These are the things that I consider why I have hard times to catch up sometimes.

ENVIRONMENT

I am very distracted to eveything especially in my environments. Since I do not have my own in our house is use to take online class in dining area and sometimes to the kitchen. It is hard for to focus because of the sorroundings. From the noise that came from my mother who do the household. From the neighbors who shouting, and to the vehicles passing, I am very distracted. Also there are a lot of things inside our house and my attention span is so broad that I end up focusing on the things that caught my attention.

INTERNET

At first we are using Data Connection. We used to buy load for about 100 a week and we are 2 in the house who took online class. And also my mother buy load for her to contact our families. By that we spent about 1200 a week and the signal is not that stable and sometimes when im in the meeting and runs out of load, the anxiety goes up because im worries that I will miss some lectures. So, our familiy decided to have A WIFI for us to connect all and have a better connection.

ONLINE APPLICATION

Before we have classes, I used to play in mobile phones, and I staying all through the time facing with my cellphone. The struggle is Im using my cellphone for my online class and we all know that one of the distraction to us is our cellphone. We used to go on social media. If there's one notification I used to open it and it ended up staying to that social media especially facebook and instagram. I'm having hard time to focus on my lectures.

CLASSMATES THAT CAN TEACH US

We all know that interaction is one way for us to learn. It is hard for me not having a classmate that i can ask on. The feeling of loneliness when you don't know the answer and you don't have a classmate to ask for. They will hard time if they teach you online especially mathematic subject that requires more explanation because of its complication

Gadgets like Laptop

i'm having a hard to do some of my activities, We have this subject like autocad and we need a good laptop performance or personal computer for us to catch up and to make activities. Though i have my own laptop, the performance of it is not enough to save bigger files.

Things that I do to make it easier.

Setting Goal

The first thing you need to do is to set your goal. If you have goal, it is easier for you to achieve if you strive hard for it. You need to focus on your goal, it needed to have open minded and being optimistic. Though there are time that you're feeling down but when you think of your goal you will have little hope to continue and by that you will start working. The hardest to do is the first step, it is hard to think what you do first but if you started it right away, the thoughts will follow.

Having Motivation

If you have motivation, it is easier for you to do task. The inspiration will make us alive and make us more creative. The first thing we need to use as a motivation is for our future. We need to think our future, if we suffer now that is normal it is worse if we enjoy now but in the future will get suffer. We should never let ourselves regret in the future that we didn't strive hard when we have the time to work for ourselves.

Unwind

If I have time, i try to unwind. I usually ride my bike go to other place if I feel that I'm getting pressure. Unwinding helps us to think. It clears our mind so that we can think peacefully. If we are stressed the capability of us to think creatively become lessen. If we don't unwind, there are a lot of thoughts inside our head and it will end up into confusion, doubt and frustration. we need to make ourself relax and we don't need to rush things. It will happen at the right time.

“Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.” – Dana Stewart Scott

I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy- I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” – Art Williams