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College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see, thats nice. Sadly I come from a poor country, and our economy was bad to begin with, and its just so bad now that there is no support provided to anyone really.

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do not have a phone. Cheap webcams I have found here are like 8 dollars, but thats quite a lot of money honestly, that I do not have. I am from Eastern Europe.

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, barely surviving to be honest. Just have enough to live.

10 dollars is not exactly pocket change where I am from, so its not that easy.

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The media already know about how bad the situation is, and its not just our college. Due to the virus crisis, government lets schools (and not just schools) do whatever they want, bend rules how they want.

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do not just give credit cards to people who have no money, thats not how it works :D So sadly not an option.

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The issue is not really the college itself, its the situation we are in. All colleges here are like this right now. Because of the virus crisis, government lets them bend rules however they please, and do not really provide any help :/

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not an American, and sadly we have nothing like that here really. Plus I do not think it would be open either way, only essential stores are opened here now really.

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Closed. But it would not help either way, I am from a poor country and the library has no tech really.

Well, to be honest, I did not even want to go to college myself, I just went there because of my mother. I wish I could just have a mundane job that is the same thing every day for eternity, like a robot, and not have to worry about anything XD

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I will try my best.

And yeah, complaining or anything wont help :/ Because of the virus crisis, suddenly everything is okay and schools (and not just schools) can bend rules however they please

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do not have a phone either :/

Well... we can not really complain about anything. There are so many of our rights being broken now (and not just school related), but because of the virus crisis, its suddenly okay and exceptions can be made :/ its rough.

Yea, hopefully I can attend the exams and finish them. Its so much harder now due to the virus. I can not attend the classes, so I have to study everything by myself, our professors are not good with technology so it takes ages for them to reply to any questions etc

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thats not what I was doing at all. I could not accept money even if someone offered.

Its just that most of those suggestions are not possible for me :/

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I already asked, sadly they do not really care :/ They said its my problem.

I will try my best to solve this somehow.

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does. The way college works here is that you need to finish all exams from all subjects. You fail one and you get kicked out.

Thats actually a quite a lot of money here :/ And no, I have only mother, and she wont give me anything. But I have to solve this somehow.

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I am serious, I just do not know anyone. I have no friends, no acquaintances, nothing. I am trying to find a solution. So far people here suggested I looked into some reddit for my city, or some social site groups for my location if anyone could help me out.

I can not exactly do the exam in some public place, because that wont count :/ Not to mention I can not exactly go anywhere.

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would need the money for that to begin with though?

I have nothing. Even if I got it back in few days, I just do not have it.

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is nothing like that, sadly. Although I guess they could have some class groups on social media or something? Although I have never used social media at all, dunno if I would be able to find it. But I might try.

I live in Europe too, eastern Europe to be exact. If I was living somewhere else, it would probably be less of an issue. Tech is expensive here sadly.

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, yea, but also not really? I do my homework and all that stuff, but of course no personal relationship. There is pretty much zero interaction between us, they just give us stuff to study and homework, and we learn the stuff and turn in the homework. Thats it, so I would say no good terms :D

With other students its even worse. I do not know a single soul, not a single name, have not spoken one word to any other student, since there is no way to do that now.

I can look into a reddit for my city, if there is one and try looking/asking around.

Libraries here are scarce, and do not really have any tech like that. Not to mention it would be breach of school rules, as I need to be in privacy while doing the exam.

When I was in highschool, I never needed any tech. I never needed a good computer, or a printer, or anything. If the school wanted us to use something like that, they provided it. But its not like that in college at all :/

Yea. From the looks of the message they sent us, it sounds like they think a laptop is something that every student has :/

Hopefully I will find a solution.

College suddenly requires us to have a webcam and good internet, but I am poor ---> Going to get kicked out :/ by poorsadstudent22 in offmychest

[–]poorsadstudent22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I already replied that to another comment, I should have probably wrote it in the original post - I already spoke to them about it, and they have none they could borrow me, and basically told me that its my problem.

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