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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

It's hard making friends in a new place when socializing isn't quite an option. I go out, I walk around my new neighborhood daily just to get out (besides going to the grocery store or running other errands). The main people I interact with are my roommates, and I'm fortunate that we all get along. I take a lot of joy in small interactions, talking to the cashier at the grocery store however briefly, nodding at a woman and her child on the street (it's taken me a while to remember that no one can see you smile with a mask on). Making new friends has been a slow process, but I'm working on it. Trying to talk to new people, keeping in touch with old friends. It's a difficulty I think a lot of people share: people entering schools, new jobs, new living arrangements in new cities.