For a large majority of courses I simply did not attend to lectures, it's a lot faster to learn on your own. Yet, I could have gone to the social nights that the CS chapter held every week and mingled if I wanted to.
But yes, the lack of separation of studying and private living in a one room apartment sucked during Covid. Of course, in a regular school year I could just take the subway to my uni or uni library to work there.
The bad parts of the remote experience will go away.
> Also students usually live in a single room apparent, so it gets really hard to separate study and private live.
I lived in a single room apartment and found it quite easy to separate study and private life. It was just about self-control and not invite your girlfriend up to your apartment when you're trying to study for exams.
> I find it much harder to stay focused on a video lecture than on a live one inside a lecture hall.
Not for me. It was much easier to focus at home without the guy next to you constantly shifting in his seat. Plus able to pause the video and rewatch the parts that you didn't understand the first time.
Its much harder to establish the social connection, that part is true.
Well currently that's the case either way
> there are tons of other options for human interaction like sport clubs.
Yea but you won't meet people there who are into the same field of study as you are.
At Uni you get to meet people who have chosen the same path as you have, often people very much alike you. You are working together on tasks, explain the materials to each other and have lunch together.
You just don't have all that remotely.
Also students usually live in a single room apparent, so it gets really hard to separate study and private live.
I find it much harder to stay focused on a video lecture than on a live one inside a lecture hall. You could also go to the library to learn or work on a project if you want to avoid distractions, this is also not currently possible.