The organization is supporting nonprofits to help protect vulnerable populations. The donations collected through “Zoom Memes for Self Quaranteens” will be used towards the CDP COVID-19 Response Fund. The organization helps donors make disaster-related giving decisions to help optimize available resources. "I think one of the memes that was the impetus of starting the group is definitely on my all time favorites," he recollects sentimentally.Īside from lighthearted memes, the group has raised over $4,000 for the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP). The meme is a galaxy brain meme that suggests that the ultimate way to make a move into a girl's heart is not through text or Instagram DMs, but through Zoom private messages. Agarwal highlights one that he found from another college meme page, “UC Berkeley Memes for Edgy Teens,” that he later reshared. With thousands of memes on the page, it's hard to pick a standout favorite. We may lack a physical campus and the quirky traditions we would normally practice, but Quaranteens have established an extensive student body and a campus culture in a matter of days. Quarantining brings out chaos, irregular sleep cycles, and - of course - cringeworthy TikTok dances. Students in 2020 are trying to finish the academic year with as much structure and normalcy as possible. “Zoom University” refers to the phenomena of colleges across the country flocking towards the remote conference platform. Agarwal summarizes one of the page’s biggest themes: “we all are under the same institution: Zoom University!” Various publications such as The New York Times and The Atlantic have taken notice of how college students are using memes to cope with the challenges of the pandemic.Īlthough the group inevitably touches on COVID-19 and its consequences, it maintains a lighthearted haven for members to bond over. Since its inception on March 11, the Facebook group “Zoom Memes for Self Quaranteens” has attracted over half a million members. “Turns out, a lot of people connected to that.” “We sort of realized that there is a market for such memes, and we started a Facebook group as a joke,” Agarwal recalled. In a group chat, recent School of Computer Science (SCS) graduate Shreyan Bakshi and SCS rising sophomore Mehul Agarwal exchanged memes about now attending university on Zoom. Despite being physically apart from our universities, we are all united by one global platform: Zoom.Ĭarnegie Mellon’s decision to move classes online was one that many students were expecting, but were still surprised by. Social distancing has scattered college students across every corner of the Earth.
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