Are you being depressed of just staying at home and not fully enjoying the Freshmen life? Do you still not feel better even though your parents, RAs and RM professor deliver messages to cheer you up? If so, how about sharing your hardships and depressed feelings with your colleagues and deliver console messages to each other? On April 2020, the warmth of Allen house has spread out to the Allenians who were all physically and emotionally far apart from each other during COVID-19 chaos. RC students were provided with a procedure video of Dalgona coffee and were required to post the picture of their home-made Dalgona coffe with warm letters to other RC students. The letters written by RC students were delivered anonymously and randomly to other the Allenians.

그림 [Picture 2 Letter of RC student]

    Most Allenians wrote down on their letters that they understand how all freshmen are depressed in this time of pain due to COVID-19. Trying to maintain the high-level education, the professors overloaded the freshmen with assignments which made them feel that they are still in the life cycle of their senior year in high school. However, the cheer-up message by freshmen who can sincerely sympathize on the feeling of each other shed light on the depressed minds. Some of them expressed optimistic view on this situation stating that they still have numerous semesters of college to enjoy.

    그림 [Picture 3, Picture of letter written by a RC student]

    Moreover, students consoled and cheered up each other to finish the remaining days as fun as possible. After the program, RC students have stated that they could gain motivation and vigorously continue their college life and feel better while writing these supportive messages. RA Chaeyoon Kim, who engaged in the implementation of also expressed satisfaction on the effect of the program stating that “Even though we were not able to meet face to face and couldn’t comfort them with warm words directly, the sincere messages and sharing one cup of Dalgona coffee has warmed our hearts.”

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