{"id":19757,"date":"2020-07-22T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19757"},"modified":"2020-07-22T08:50:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T15:50:29","slug":"student-editors-letter-enjoying-summer-at-camosun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/07\/22\/student-editors-letter-enjoying-summer-at-camosun\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Editor\u2019s Letter: Enjoying summer at Camosun"},"content":{"rendered":"

With what post-secondary education means evolving by the week, summer at Camosun could mean more now than it ever has. I once wrote an editor\u2019s letter sitting under an oak in Beacon Hill Park looking at the ducks and hoping to see a peacock. Alas, one didn\u2019t spread its wings, but I couldn\u2019t help but think that it was still a really neat way to be a part of the college community. After all, throughout history, the act of communities spreading out is a vital step to prosperity.<\/p>\n

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Camosun’s empty Lansdowne campus in July 2020 (photo by Greg Pratt\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Those nice ideas juxtapose the realities facing Camosun staff, faculty, and students. None of us have a crystal ball. At the end of every day, I can\u2019t help but think that I might be\u2014both as a student and your veteran student editor\u2014one day closer to the end of it all. Now, if you wanted to be philosophical, that\u2019s true for all of us. It\u2019s not a stretch to say, then, that that same carpe diem <\/em>ideology\u2014for we don\u2019t know how many days are left, in any sense of the humbling idea\u2014is front and centre for me right now. The layoffs are starting to roll in; I imagine there\u2019s a portion of the student population who would like to matriculate but can\u2019t. The reasons\u2014be they financial or ripple effects of national or international sovereignty\u2014aren\u2019t important here. The point is that each of us can slow down, rethink what it means to work productively, and live the cliches (don\u2019t forget to breathe; experience oneness; feel the ground under our feet), but also experience any well-justified sense of doom or malaise that might be hovering over us like a boomerang ready to drop.<\/p>\n

The good news is that each of us can choose what to pay attention to. I can hear you Philosophy majors whispering about free will, but choosing not to choose\u2014rather, to be okay with whatever happens by recognizing the fact that just because, technically speaking, each one of us is insignificant in a global crisis, doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re any less valuable\u2014is a choice, too.<\/p>\n

Regardless of if you\u2019re gainfully enrolled and employed or painfully rationing dinner until the next CERB cheque, take a breath and sit under a tree in Beacon Hill Park. We\u2019ve all got each other. Watch the ducks and the flowers, and the sun and the malaise. Just watch it and remember: spreading out is prosperous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With what post-secondary education means evolving by the week, summer at Camosun could mean more now than it ever has. I once wrote an editor\u2019s letter sitting under an oak in Beacon Hill Park looking at the ducks and hoping to see a peacock. Alas, one didn\u2019t spread its wings, but I couldn\u2019t help but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-views"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19759,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions\/19759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}