The beginning of the semester isn't starting the way Ziya Habala had hoped.

She's a junior at Emory University outside Atlanta.

The school announced a month ago they'd be mostly online.

There are times where I feel like uninspired, especially like last semester, I was like the sucks.

I hate this. Ziya is quiet and has a very dry sense of humor and her course of study is intense.

Narrow science and behavioral biology and I'm double majoring in French and I'm pre-med.

I set up where it sounded like a lot, but it is a lot.

She's interested in being an OB-GYN or working in women's health.

When I go to the doctor and seeing black women in medicine makes me more comfortable when

I can relate to my doctor. Ziya and her family live on a cold asac outside Atlanta.

Her younger brother is in high school, her dad works in IT.

And she, like many college students, had a taste of online college last spring.

Some challenges. She's a procrastinator and she had a really hard time with time management.

I have like an anthro exam. My class was at 8.30.

This is one of the times where I didn't like watch the lecture beforehand.

So I was like, okay, I'm just going to start watching like the four lectures at 10 o'clock.

And then I finished probably around like four and so I was like, let me just stay up and just read

over my notes until like 7.30 and I slept an hour and then that was, that was good.

She says she's pulled more all-nighters like that one she just described,

taking online classes than she ever did on campus. I'll tell you what, my body, my brain couldn't

do that. I need sleep. And research shows Ziya probably needs it too.

The other big difference for Ziya is her social life. Now that classes are all virtual.

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