Heidi Soupault, a 19-year-old student at Science Po Strasbourg, addressed Emmanuel Macron in an open letter.

She tells about her discomfort and her anxieties about the closure of universities.

The President of the Republic replied to him a few days later, she told Thursday at the microphone of Europe 1.

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In her letter to the president, Heidi Soupault evokes her ill-being, her fears and her feeling of invisibility.

A student at Science Po Strasbourg, the young woman denounces the devastating effects of the Covid-19 health crisis on the existence of students, isolated in small spaces and confined for months to online courses.

"I needed to externalize. For a few days, we talked a lot with my friends about the fact that we were tired of being locked up, invisible, that everyone neglects us. I did not feel well," says -it Thursday at the microphone of Europe 1.

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Since October, she hasn't set foot in an amphitheater or seen a teacher anywhere other than on her screen.

"We get up, we get behind our computers from 8 am to 6 pm according to our schedules, we have dinner and we sleep. Our lives have no flavor: apart from work, they no longer have any meaning", underlines Heidi Soupault.

At 19, she says she feels like she doesn't really live anymore. 

"Reading Emmanuel Macron's letter undermined my morale"

A few days after having circulated her letter, the student received a response from the president.

"In a fairly long letter, Emmanuel Macron told me that he understood the students, but that we had to hold on. I had a lot of hope but unfortunately nothing will change. Reading this letter undermined my morale. "

While the students were hoping to return to the university benches in the second semester, the closure of universities should ultimately be prolonged.

"The idea of ​​spending the second semester like the first scares me," sighs Heidi Soupault.

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She asks the government to consider alternatives that would allow at least a partial return to university.

"With a half-group system, we could for example return there a day or two a week. As in companies where teleworking works part-time." 

Faced with this distress, Emmanuel Macron went to the University of Paris-Saclay on Thursday to discuss their situation with young people.

For his part, Prime Minister Jean Castex proposed to launch a "psy check" to allow students to go to a specialist to discuss their discomfort.