In this week’s installment of Masked and Answered, resident assistant Zoe Rankin, an elementary education and psychology major with a minor in special education, shares how she’s been inspired by Vanderbilt first year students’ response to the pandemic: “As an RA, I am so proud of the first year students. I think it’s incredibly hard to come to college, even under normal circumstances, and the way that they’ve handled everything has been so impressive. I came into this year with the mentality that, ‘I’m just waiting for COVID to be over and then I can do this or that,’ but the freshmen came in very grateful and just so excited to be here, meet people and start their college experience. This was especially true because they were able to be on campus when so many of their friends were still at home. Seeing the first years building community and making the most of it was so encouraging and made me realize we were going to be ok. They really did step up, and I think we can all learn from ...