What it's like to be a student at Notre Dame right now, where coronavirus cases spiked one week into the fall semester and lectures are being held in stadiums

Natalie Todaro and friends.Natalie Todaro

• As colleges begin to reopen for the fall semester, schools are adjusting to the "new normal" of social distancing guidelines.
• At the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, all undergraduate students were invited back to campus.
• A week into the fall semester, classes temporarily shifted to all-virtual following a spike in cases, although in-person hybrid classes are now being phased back in.
• Natalie "Nat" Todaro, a sophomore, returned from her home in Tennessee to campus in early August.
• Here's what her semester has looked like so far.

When Natalie "Nat" Todaro has to get to class, there are a few flights of stairs involved.

That's because the University of Notre Dame sophomore had one course on the seventh floor of the school's stadium. Most of her courses are online, but the ones that are in-person — as part of the school's hybrid courses — have been meeting in "weird spaces."

The school invited back all undergraduates to campus in August 2020.

Notre Dame has had a complicated reopening process: first year students moved in August 3-5, and returning students could move in August 6-9, according to its residential life site. Todaro was one of the returning students who moved in on August 6.

Classes began on August 10, and, as the New York Times reports, one week into the fall semester courses went completely remote after a spike in cases. Students remained on campus, and further restrictions were put in place.

But the school has since phased back into in-person courses after cases dropped, according to the Concord Monitor.

Todaro has been on campus throughout it all.

"Everyone wants to be here," Todaro said. "The experience here on campus is unlike anything else; it's just special."

Here's what it's like to be a student at University of Notre Dame right now.