The NYT recently ran an op-ed about college students "not being OK" two years into the pandemic. A colleague elsewhere who sent it to me added this observation: "In my large required class, teaching was pretty dismal this term: endless absurd excuses, academic integrity issues etc. Maybe a good discussion topic, when you are blogging more regularly again."
What have readers noticed about their undergraduate students? I teach almost exclusively graduate students, and have not noticed significant changes (although one third of both my classes this quarter were out with Covid at one point or another!), but readers are free to comment on their graduate students as well.