I had plenty of momentum to pursue HPEd when I enlisted in December. CoVid appealed casually to me because being in NTTCHP and UPM requires that its constituents be critical of information which meant that I would only subscribe to evidence based on research. I was willing to continue travelling from Tarlac to Manila and back to attend face to face classes because being in school gave all of us the mindset that learning was the agenda for the day, and that we could leave all non-academic matters where they should be.
Being thrust into the quarantine removed that time-space warp. I suddenly found myself looking at a mashup of home, work, and school contexts and it was difficult to isolate one from the other. There was no more sanctuary that provided all the necessary resources and essential interactions for learning. The momentum I had for learning was at risk of dying, like a patient gasping for breath. It was like CoVid slowly killing my learning momentum.
In the end, I prevailed. Deadlines have a way of getting people back on track.