In March 2020, a new pandemic arrived in Santa Barbara, CA: COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus. The arrival was sudden. Just a couple of weeks after my students and I had talked about the lack of cases, UC Santa Barbara moved all classes online for the next three months. As a music professor-in-training, that move carried quite a few complications for my immediate and future life. At the start of spring quarter, I must now teach my students through a computer program. I will probably not physically see them again for a long time, a fact that fills me with sadness. But the changes to my own life are pretty small, compared to the repercussions for everyone else. Many students were told to leave for break, and not return. A lot of them won't have a last quarter at UCSB before graduating. Finding the essentials - pasta, rice, and toilet paper, most notably - is proving pretty tricky. And though the Internet is coming into its own keeping people connected, nothing can repla...