Before the pandemic, did you ever use the now-popular video conferencing app called Zoom? In this episode, we take a look at the current weather of academics in higher education, which has been saturated with online classes and an overwhelming amount of Zoom calls. We hear from Dr. Cindy Van Es, a Statistics professor at Cornell University about the experience of doing a hybrid classroom setup, and from the Cornell Subreddit page where students describe their mental health struggles during this online semester. Ultimately, we try to answer the question: what value is there in doing college in an online environment?

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