It's 2020 and students worldwide have been dismissed from their dormitories and classrooms. Zoom classes aside, many are wondering if there is any hope in salvaging this critical time in their lives. Many may be surprised to find, they're not the first students sent home on account of a pandemic! In 1665, the bubonic plague was ravaging much of England. As a result, one “Isaac Newton” was forced off the Cambridge University campus and returned home to shelter in place. In his newfound solitude, he came to develop the underpinnings of the theories of gravity & calculus… but Newton didn’t have Netflix! In these dire times, how can we mere mortals stay safe and sane?!

Written and performed by Sumner L. Norman, Ph.D.