Universities are opening across the country and their finding that preventing

coronavirus outbreaks is very very hard. Many of the infections trace to

athletics or to crowded gatherings. One party can lead to more than a hundred

cases is with a snap of the finger. For a lot of students college is a time of

firsts. I remember that thrill and excitement a freshman year of feeling

independent for the first time. This year has been a rough start for incoming

freshmen. Not only have they had to deal with the loss of their high school

graduation, they're not going to college in the middle of a pandemic. School is

only just beginning and there's already more than 8,000 coronavirus cases

linked to colleges in dozens of states. Some of them have been linked to parties

where students have ignored social distancing guidelines and haven't worn masks.

But it's important to remember this isn't unforgiving virus. Even a simple

mistake can lead to an outbreak. A lot of colleges have been forced to move from

in-person classes to virtual learning after those spikes and cases. In this

episode my colleague, CNN's senior global affairs analyst, Biana Gola-Driga,

talked to college freshman Bella Smith. Originally from New York, Bella just

began her freshman year at Tulane University in New Orleans, where normally

there would be 14,000 students attending the school. Tulane is offering both

virtual and in-person classes. It requires face coverings on campus and is also

testing students and staff regularly. As of this week, the university has

reported over 150 cases. We wanted to understand Bella's first few weeks of

college and try and answer the question, how do you go through the college

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