Campus Life
Survey shows students coping with a year of isolation, loneliness
The pandemic has caused a mass amount of change in a small amount of time. Some people may refer to the pandemic as unprecedented. The group that the pandemic has had the largest effect on is students. Kids went from seeing their teacher and friends everyday face to face to seeing people from their computer … Continue reading Survey shows students coping with a year of i... Read More
Registration for summer, fall begins at NECC
Registration for the summer and fall semesters is now open at Northern Essex Community College. The school is offering many different options for classes. There will be in person classes, only for health and stem classes unless the pandemic improves as stated on NECC’s website. There will be online classes, online classes with required zoom … Continue reading Registratio... Read More
Reflecting on a year of COVID
In March of 2021 the anniversary of the first lockdown came about, and more specifically the first time since NECC shut down and changed the format to online learning. Students reflect on the past year. Nisaly Gonzalez, who lives in North Andover and is studying Liberal Arts in NECC says that many things have not … Continue reading Reflecting on a year of COVID → Read More
COG offers outlet to help community
Club members say NECC’s Community Outreach Group is a place for students of any background to make friends while working towards a common goal: helping their community. “Everyone is coming from a different situation [and] different perspective, but at the end of the day we find something that everyone can contribute to, and everyone gets … Continue reading COG offers out... Read More
Students connect through art club
On the cold night of February 10, students turned on their computers and met through the familiar Zoom to have the Art Club meeting. The club is still fairly new, it’s beginning dates back to November of the past fall semester. A portion of the meeting consisted of what one would expect. The students introduced … Continue reading Students connect through art club → Read More
Center for Liberal Arts offers students academic help, events, advising and more
The Center for Liberal Arts is a social and academic home for all Northern Essex students who have a liberal arts related major so that they can have access to academic help, events, after school snacks, advising, and more. The idea of the Cente rcame about from the Business and Accounting center and at the … Continue reading Center for Liberal Arts offers students acade... Read More
Connecting with the community during the holidays
Northern Essex Community College hosted a holiday themed movied night in December. The community was encouraged to participate in the showing of the movie, The Holiday, being shown via Zoom. Any and all students and faculty members are welcome to join with a super simple signup through link. The organizer of this recurring movie night, … Continue reading Connecting with... Read More
Journalism program coordinator hosts conversation about the craft
On Dec. 10, 2020, the new coordinator of the journalism and communciations program at Northern Essex Community College, Kim Lyng hosted a journalism and communications ‘conversation’ for all students and staff members to attend if they pleased. Lyng began the presentation by talking about her introduction to writing as a child. Lyng believes her love … Continue reading ... Read More
Learning from home affects student life
Due to coronavirus, student life at Northern Essex community college has changed drastically. Before Covid struck students were able to attend meetings, have in person classes,and enjoy the beautiful campus. Now that nobody is allowed on campus, all meetings and conversations have to be held online. There have also been online student town halls. It … Continue reading Le... Read More
Reflecting on a remote fall, looking ahead to spring semester
This past fall semester was one like none other. With Covid still on a rampage, manypeople have questions about what the spring semester of 2021 is going to look like at Northern Essex Community College. It has previously been stated that classes are still going be 100% remote, but they’regoing to encourage professors to schedule … Continue reading Reflecting on a remote... Read More