Blog 3: The Environment and Me When considering the topic for this blog I thought back to the past three years, the year before the COVID epidemic was thrust upon us and the two years since and, I asked myself did my environment change, was my world thrown into chaos, did I become rudderless? After a complete and honest assessment, I would state that my life and environment which I define loosely as my day to day living conditions and interaction with others was not upended rather, I was more resilient. When I examine the COVID epidemic on my life/environment I examine it through three lenses first academics, social, and overall, my mental health which I will go into more detail to describe my experience. When the epidemic emerged and started it’s spread across the country, I was attending Fayetteville Technical Community College (FTCC) studying in their Horticulture Program, and like most students we had to transition to onli...