The article describes the results of a study of students’ ideas about whether the coronavirus pandemic is a difficult life situation for them. The authors present the results of a study of the level of situational and personal anxiety experienced by students in a difficult life situation, as well as the preferred strategies for overcoming life’s difficulties. It was found out that most of the participants named self-determination, personal relationships and workload as the most pressing problems. The coronavirus pandemic was noted as an urgent problem only by a few people out of the total number of respondents, which allows us to conclude that students do not consider it as a difficult life situation.