{"id":2280,"date":"2020-10-07T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/dorm-rooms-go-virtual-in-light-of-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T15:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T22:35:31","slug":"dorm-rooms-go-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/dorm-rooms-go-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorm rooms go virtual in light of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3326-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3326-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Dorm rooms go virtual in light of COVID-19\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Incoming USC Dornsife undergraduates made new friendships through the virtual roommates program, which partnered students to work on challenges like an online escape room and a game design competition. 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typical fall move-in day at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the dormitories at USC are abuzz with the sounds of thousands of students moving into their new homes. Trolley bins packed with boxes and bedding zip through the corridors as students hang posters, plug in computers and meet their roommates.<\/p>\n<p>For many, like alumni Autumn Gupta and Bryanna Wallace, this day is the start of life-long friendships. The two met while roommates at USC, maintained their relationship after graduation and recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/3242\/usc-alumnae-create-website-to-fight-racism\/\">created a popular anti-racism resource hub<\/a> together.<\/p>\n<p>This year the rumbling echoes of trolley wheels were absent from the brick courtyards of the village. Campus was mostly closed due to the coronavirus pandemic and students were learning remotely, which meant many were home with family.<\/p>\n<p>New undergraduates still got an opportunity to form friendships, however, thanks to the efforts of Courtney Byrd and Noel Viramontes, senior assistant directors at the <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/admission\/\">USC Dornsife Office of Admissions<\/a>. Hoping to replicate at least some of that freshman bonding, they organized a recent virtual roommates experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were really focused on how to help new students build community in a virtual environment,\u201d explains Viramontes. Both were unsure the event would be a success. Would students even be interested in yet another online offering? Their fears were allayed when over 300 students signed up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Escape together<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Byrd and Viramontes organized three challenges for students: an online escape room, a competition to come up with solutions to a pressing societal issue and a game design challenge. Students were grouped into small \u201csuites\u201d of five or six to tackle their chosen experience.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/VirtualRoomates_InStoryA-3326.jpg\" alt=\"TimeScape Complete All Nine Correct the Timeline\" width=\"300\" height=\"580\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Physics and computer science major Tammy Gorokhov helped design a custom history-themed escape room entitled \u201cTimescape.\u201d (Image: Courtesy of Courtney Byrd.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the online escape room, the two recruited Tammy Gorokhov, a <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/physics\/physics-computer-science\/\">physics and computer science<\/a> major and a <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/dornsife-ambassadors\">USC Dornsife ambassador<\/a>, to help build the game. Gorokhov is a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/usc.campuslabs.com\/engage\/organization\/escape-sc\">Escape SC<\/a>, a USC club where students build and solve their own online and in-person escape rooms.<\/p>\n<p>Online escape rooms take participants through a series of thematic puzzles. To honor the letters, arts and sciences of USC Dornsife, Gorokhov made the virtual roommates\u2019 escape room history themed\u00a0\u2014\u00a0with a twist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2080, a USC Dornsife professor of \u2018digital archeology\u2019 creates a time machine. In his process of trying to digitize artifacts, he kind of mixes them up. So, you go to the different time periods, solve the clues he left behind, find the artifact, and then at the end you have to match all the artifacts up to the right time period,\u201d explains Gorokhov.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/VirtualRoomates_InStoryB-3326.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Tammy Gorokhov\" width=\"350\" height=\"544\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tammy Gorokhov is a Dornsife Ambassador and a member of the Escape SC club. (Photo courtesy: Tammy Gorokhov)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Each historical period has a pertinent puzzle. A World War II puzzle had participants make sense of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cl.cam.ac.uk\/projects\/raspberrypi\/tutorials\/turing-machine\/one.html\">Turing machine,<\/a> the precursor to the modern computer, using different codes to see which one passed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/jun\/09\/what-is-the-alan-turing-test\">Turing test<\/a>. From there, students were led to a Cold War-themed chess match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Political figures] of the Cold War were different chess pieces. You had to figure out, based on who was able to attack who, which chess piece belonged to each figure in the Cold War,\u201d Gorokhov said. Once that was determined, players made a word from the first letters of these names. That was a key word that led to a Russian political document.<\/p>\n<p>After decoding a particular pattern of punctuation marks in the document, students extracted a phrase in Morse Code they entered into the next puzzle, and so forth on through history.<\/p>\n<p>For Gorokhov, Escape SC has been her own avenue for making friends at USC. She\u2019d always loved solving puzzles, so when she arrived at USC to find a whole club devoted to the subject, she immediately applied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got in and it was probably the best decision I&#8217;ve made in college so far. Definitely one of the greatest groups of people I&#8217;ve ever met in my life,\u201d says Gorokhov. She was happy to see several new students apply to the club after the virtual roommates event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friends IRL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Byrd and Viramontes\u2019 careful structuring of the event, which encouraged a team approach and multiple meetings, also helped build connections among students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we formed friendships because, rather than being a one-time meeting, my roommates and I met up virtually more than once,\u201d says Abeerah Siddiqui, an <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/environmental-studies\/\">environmental studies<\/a> major who was drawn to the virtual roommates experience by its unconventional activities. \u201cWe still have our group chat and occasionally message on there. Hopefully, we will get to meet each other in-person once we\u2019re back on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raymiro Gomez-Galiano, who is majoring in <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ngos-and-social-change\/\">non-governmental organizations and social change<\/a>, agrees. \u201cI do believe friendships have been made. We networked, talked about our majors and feel as if we created a healthy environment. I\u2019d definitely love to get to know these people more. I cannot wait to see myself four years from now and reminiscing about these times.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With students at home this semester due to the coronavirus pandemic, USC Dornsife arranged for first-year students to make connections through a virtual roommate experience instead. <strong>[4 min read]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[61,527],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student","tag-pandemic","tag-student-experience"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dorm rooms go virtual in light of COVID-19<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/dorm-rooms-go-virtual\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dorm rooms go virtual in light of COVID-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With students at home this semester due to the coronavirus pandemic, USC Dornsife arranged for first-year students to make connections through a virtual roommate experience instead. 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