Stories from quarantine: Our pandemic essentials
April 20, 2020
Both yearbook and newspaper staffs spent time creating their own pandemic flat lays, an array of the essentials that are keeping them safe, healthy and happy during this time. Take a peek at student journalists’ must-haves during quarantine: these photos include everything from journals and cookbooks to ballet shoes and hoverboards, painting a diverse picture of the necessities and hobbies that keep us going while stuck at home.
My pandemic survival kit includes my favorite books, origami, various art mediums and my iPad. Cranes symbolize peace and tranquility, two emotional states that are crucial for all of our well-beings, especially during these disorienting times.
My pandemic survival kit consists of a mouse (and its cute mousepad), my laptop, a book of the week and chocolates and a water bottle for sustenance. Together, these items enable me to stay connected to reality and to my friends as the pandemic attempts to separate me from both.
My pandemic survival kit includes my laptop, phone, Apple Watch, headphones, lip balm, nail polish, hand sanitizer, candle and scrunchies. These daily essentials keep me occupied at home during this difficult time.
Laid out across my wooden table are my quarantine essentials: classical guitar sheet music, Starbucks coffee, math notebook, phone, earbuds, ukulele, and coffee grounds.
My pandemic kit is party on the left and... pajama party on the right. I've been subsisting on creative pursuits, aided by a 24/7 soundtrack, sunglasses for vibes, a hand-sewn scrunchie that matches my room, bubblegum, various writing utensils for ideas and art and books to tickle my jellies.
As each day blurs into the next, my quaran-team of self-care items includes a quirky clutch of makeup essentials; a faux-leather notebook filled with shower thoughts and differential equations problems; glasses (for when I run out of contacts, which is soon); my skincare products from Glow Recipe; my gently tarnished calligraphy supplies; travel-sized perfume samples; a snippet of nature; my sister’s baking book, which is far too advanced for me; college merchandise to fill the hole of canceled admit weekend; Milan Kundera’s novels and, last but not least, a UV light to refresh my monthly gel manicure.
This is my pandemic survival kit. Two copies of the Winged Post, a bottle of hand sanitizer, a face mask for going outside, my black writing journal, the poetry book "You are Not Dead," my pencil box, an incomplete puzzle, my phone with a photo of my grandma (whose birthday was Wednesday), a roll of toilet paper, earbuds and a stuffed penguin.