Collected Item: “Covid Diary Entry”
What type of object are you contributing?
Document/File
Provide a brief title for the object you are contributing.
Covid Diary Entry
Provide us with a brief description of this object and, if it is not obvious, how it connects with the Chippewa Valley. For example, if this object is an image describe for us what the image displays and why it is significant.
I have always loved writing and making essays on my own by making it funny instead of boring and extremely formal. With writing a diary entry about my day allowed me to bring in the aspects of a primary source while also allowing me to have fun with the assignment. The diary entry I wrote constitutes a primary source because it deals with life in a first-hand account during the pandemic. Primary sources can range from journal entries to magazines, to published scientific data, to something as small as a conversation between two grandparents. Since I am talking about what I am going through and seeing and doing during the covid-19 pandemic my source is a primary source. If I were to write a journal entry about what I read about WWII, it wouldn’t be a primary source because it’s not an artifact created under that specific time. This diary entry best expresses my experiences throughout the pandemic because it really expresses the major aspects of my life. Social life, school, and masks. As a college student school is very important, and the entry describes how hard it is to learn while being all online, it also talks about how difficult it is to have a social life when everything's closed down and you’re not allowed to see lots of people. This perfectly highlights the major problems in my life today.
When was this item created? Please use a "month day, year" format, for example, "April 10, 2020."
December 9, 2020
Share with us the geographic location where this item was created. Please include, if possible, a ZIP code and an address or cross streets to help us map this location. For example, "Rice Lake, Wis., 54868, intersection of Main and Knapp."
Eau Claire, WI, 54701
Who created this object?
Megan Tougas
Tell us who is contributing this object to the Covid-19 archive. For example, "John Smith."
Megan Tougas
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Education
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Special events
Your name.
[private]
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Yes