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Temple University students adjust to new normal as fall semester begins

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PHILADELPHIA - Temple University students are adjusting to the new norm as they head back for the fall semester.

The Charles Library is bustling once again but campus life in the pandemic era is quite a bit different.Temple freshman Kennedy Atwater wears a mask to class and she has no roommate.

Her first year is anything but normal."You can’t really enjoy like homecoming or do the things you look forward to as a freshman so it’s kind of difficult," she said.Last year, you could find about 27,000 students walking on campus on the first day of classes.

Thanks to COVID-19 this year it was less than 9,000, but that is by design. Only 25 percent of classes have an in-person component.

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