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Stepping into the broader BU student community as a COM major can feel infantilizing at times. Every COM student has come across jokes –whether via meme in the Facebook group, BU Memes for Normy Teens, or in person among friends — that poke fun at COM courses as easy. COM students don\u2019t know math. COM students don\u2019t take any finals. COM students don\u2019t have any homework. Every CAS, ENG, or Questrom student seems to believe that they could study Public Relations or Film\/TV and skate by with a great GPA. And not to mention the judgement that can come from family members who ask the eternal question: are you sure you don\u2019t want to pursue medicine or law instead?<\/span><\/p>\n As a Film\/TV major with friends across various disciplines in COM, it seems to me that this is a universal experience. While we in COM know the absolutely essential nature of our field — thanks, COM 101 — sometimes, even if just for a brief moment, I buy into what the rest of the world sees. I won\u2019t ever design bridges. I won\u2019t ever perform surgery or create vaccines. Those are the things that are supposed to make society go round, not movies. Early on in the pandemic, back when everyone was just getting used to lockdown and COM students were grappling with how to take JO 200 or Prod 1 over Zoom, I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about the jobs that seemed to really, really matter in that moment:healthcare staff, lab scientists, essential delivery workers, software engineers. I didn\u2019t seem to see my own field on the list.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As we all settled into our own isolated routines, though, I began to notice a pattern in what we were talking about over FaceTime or text: \u201cDid you see the headline of the New York Times?\u201d \u201cCheck out Ben & Jerry\u2019s statement!\u201d \u201cI binge-watched both seasons of Fleabag today.\u201d In this pandemic, when everyone is scared and bored, communication workers have buoyed morale, spread key information, and often provided a needed distraction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If there has ever been a time to feel uncertain about the future, it\u2019s now. But I feel heartened to see the projects that my friends have tirelessly churned out: articles, podcasts, campaigns, photojournalism, videography, and more. Once this is all over and the world settles, and people return to doubting the utility of COM careers, I will sleep well at night knowing that current COM students and countless COM alumni stepped up to the plate and did their part to ferry the world through this crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stepping into the broader BU student community as a COM major can feel infantilizing at times. Every COM student has come across jokes –whether via meme in the Facebook group, BU Memes for Normy Teens, or in person among friends — that poke fun at COM courses as easy. COM students don\u2019t know math. COM … Continue reading Sophie: What the Pandemic Taught Me About COM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44586,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4880,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions\/4880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}