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                                                     For my argument I am going to argue that online learning is bad or mental health especially being isolated from classes. But then I am going to have my counter argument that it has actually helped peoples mental health especially for students that already struggle with getting out of bed and showing how it can actually be beneficial and not all that bad.

Social isolation due to covid has had a immense effect on college students. For my case study I am going to focus on a girl that goes to University of Texas, and how the social isolation had effected her. She was alone going back to school already battling depression and I am going to use her story to strengthen my argument.

My theoretical frame is social isolation. I am going to use social isolation during covid as the basis for my paper and use it to connect various topics pertaining to the effects it has on minorities, international students, women, and even those of low income. Isolation has been an epidemic prior too covid and now it has gone through the roof since of the mandatory isolation.

This picture represents the time that students spend on campus and how certain time spent in other places can cause less social integration. This also represents affluence vs less affluence and how it effects time spent on campus and how it plays a large roll in a students social life on campus. It also shows that time at the university has a positive effect on students because you are more social.

In the research analysis “Time and money explain social class differences in students social integration at university”. They used a self survey report system that was conducted online with students from a university in Australia and the United states. This study was focused on the socioeconomic status of students and how it had effected there social integration during school. Social integration is the way a person performs in social settings, weather they be interacting a lot or isolating themselves from social settings. Being social in college “leads to better learning, cognitive growth, critical thinking, and personal and moral development”(Rubin). Which are vital to a persons health and wellness. Without the means to access these social skills there can be issues. Many students face this burden due to the fact that “students' concerns about finances are negatively related to their sense of belonging and contact with other students”(Rubin) Often times, money can be a deciding ...

The aim of the study Mental Health impacts for international students during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China was to evaluate the mental health status of international students from Changsha city attending Central South University. In this study they got information from each of their participants about security, graduation, quarantine status, general anxiety and their personal health. In order to conquer these goals of the study, they conducted a online mental health survey to the international students pertaining their distress related to the COVID-19 outbreak and quarantine. They also used a Webchat based survey program to facilitate the general demographic questions that contribute to their study and results regarding mental health. It was conducted on 153 students and 143 of those were not previously diagnosed with any mental disorders, leaving the 10 left diagnosed with some kind of previous mental illness. The results found that a lot of anxiety and depression was linked to t...