You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.

Hey everybody, Maddie Sivai here with Shortwave reporter Emily Quang.

Hey Maddie.

Hey Quang, are you ready to have some fun today?

Heck yeah!

We need it.

Yeah, 100%.

These past few weeks of social distancing have felt like an eternity.

But spring is here.

Yes.

The season of bees pollinating flowers, freshly mowed lawns, and even now, my favorite,

final exam season.

Which, with many colleges and universities, cancelling in person, teaching in response to the coronavirus,

many classrooms have gone digital.

Jen Stroud-Rosman is a professor of mechanical engineering at Lafayette College, and she

and her husband, who is also an engineering professor, they tricked out their dining room

with wooden slabs nailed together to keep the cameras straight for streaming their lessons.

Not to mention...

You're all set up.

Good job.

How long did it take for you to finalize the remote classroom in its final form?

I mean, it's iterative, like all engineering design, right?

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