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Your Health, Our Health

Middlebury students explain what it will take to maintain a healthy campus and community

- Returning to campus won’t be easy.

- Whether it’s your last year or your first year.

- It’s no question that the semester is going to be different.

- Things will be tough for a fact, it’ll be the very difficult thing that you’ve ever experienced.

- And that doesn’t mean it can’t be fulfilling and fun.

- Simply being present at Middlebury College is a privilege in of itself.

- To protect the health and safety of our Middlebury community this fall.

- We have to start at the individual level.

- Starting with the 14 day quarantine at home.

- As well as the quarantine once we arrive on campus.

- Personally, I will be following all of the Middlebury Health Protocol.

- I will stay on campus.

- Follow the proper guidelines.

- Keep current with any guidelines or new suggestions.

- And of course wearing my mask all the time.

- Inside and outside.

- Checking my temperature every single day.

- Carrying my little bottle of hand sanitizer around with me.

- Practice social distancing.

- Focus on the experience and activities that we can have.

- Continue to reference the Health Pledge.

- Not gathering with other students in groups.

- Complete the daily questionnaire on the Health app.

- Wash my hands all the time.

- We have to know that our actions can have severe consequences and impacts on others.

- Our collective health and safety require cooperation, transparency, and honesty above all else.

- The faculty and staff have been working tirelessly to welcome us in the safest manner.

- And it’s time to use those brains of ours to follow the social guidelines.

- Turn to campus and ensuring a safe and healthy semester is a group effort.

- It’s a not only individual responsibility, but also a collective responsibility.

- So I think it is our obligation to be as inclusive as possible.

- None of us wanna end up where we were last spring and we’d all like to see COVID subside.

- Our community is not just confined by the physical boundary of the campus.

- We owe it to the town of Middlebury to exhibit self-control.

- Keeping Middlebury safe is a duty, that we must all share.

- Not just out of love for my peers but out of respect and responsibility for our community.

- It takes all of us to keep our friends, our college community and local community safe.

- Even though we feel as though we lack control, we actually will make a big impact on how temporary the situation is.

- It’s not about just what I want to do and my own health but it’s about me protecting other people.