Abstract
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic created psychological chaos, social distress, and emotional disturbances to the students worldwide which affected their pursuit to focus on their learning goals. This article examines the psychosocial, educational, and other related challenges of the current crisis which threaten the space for learning heuristics and personal well-being of university students.
 Methods: The study applied an illustrative case study design to describe the real-life situations of the students in from a state university in the Philippines during the early stages of a phenomenal health event in history.
 Results: Result indicates that COVID-19 posits detrimental effects to the students’ educational cycles and psycho-social well-being as they felt drowned, trapped, and annihilated at the arrival of COVID-19. Aside from the psychological dilemma, students also deal with emotional, virtual, social, technical, and educational-related challenges. 
 Conclusions: The educational momentum of these particular students declined due to unprecedented educational transitions, decreased motivation for their studies, complexities experienced in the emergency online learning environments, and multiplex health and digital issues.
Highlights
The existence of the deadly virus influenced the psyche of the students
In the case of tertiary education, The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in the Philippines enjoined Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to employ flexible learning and other alternative delivery modes instead of on-campus learning in order to continue learning (Commission on Higher Education, 2020)
This study explored in a broader perspective how students’ educational goals are affected during the Covid-19 crisis and how the findings may be used by policymakers and school administrators in deciding how to mitigate the detrimental effects of Covid-19 on education
Summary
The existence of the deadly virus influenced the psyche of the students. They faced isolation, anxiety, and uncertainty about the future in the unprecedented time in their student life. The study of Son, Hegde, Smith, Wang, and Sasangohar (2020) revealed that students experienced increased stress, anxiety, and depressive thoughts during the Covid-19 outbreak due to multiple stressors such as increased concerns in their academic performance. The shift from in-person classes to a new learning environment brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic such as the online and modular learning has caused academic tension among students most especially to those who cannot adopt to new learning paradigm (Di-Pietro, Biagi, Costa, Karpiński, & Mazza, 2020). The results may assist teachers and parents on how they can properly provide support and guidance to students during this public health emergency crisis
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