Student Success Story: Robin Gaitan

Learning during a pandemic hasn’t been the easiest thing for students across campus. The move from sitting in a classroom with twenty-five other students to being at home learning through a computer has been difficult for many students. Robin Gaitan, an English Literature graduate student, has made some big changes to make the most of her experience learning online.

Navigating online courses has been an interesting experience for Robin, who took an academic leave in Spring 2020 in order to finish classes from the semester before. When she returned in Fall 2020, she didn’t experience a huge change in terms of learning style. However, Robin is legally blind and a BMAC student, so there were different challenges she had to work through. “There have been a few more hurdles that I’ve had to deal with  learning Zoom, figuring that out, how does it work with the computer technology that I use on my computer,” she says. She has been able to get accommodations that have helped her learn, but it doesn’t replace being on campus, which she misses the most.

To read more of Robin’s story, please follow this link: https://cla.csulb.edu/student-success-story-robin-gaitan/