n>A student recently confided in me that in light of her growing fears in the face of the current global pandemic it was getting harder and harder for her to concentrate on her academic workload. She assured me that it was not so much the amount of reading and writing that was being required, or even that she had to learn (along with her professors) how to navigate her coursework now that it had been moved entirely to a digital, online, and remote instructional format—although such developments had been challenging in their own right.  Rather, she indicated, her struggle was with seeing the importance of spending so much of her time studying the History of Psychology, Late Elizabethan Literature, Latin 101, and the Sociology of Gender when the world seemed increasingly perilously perched on the edge of a total societal meltdown.  Read Full Article »