Don't panic Take one day at a time. Make sure you get enough sleep Make sure you get any support you can from your university. Check out the counselling and medical facilities should the worst happen.
I am sure your parents will be just a phone call away if someone bad happens. Keep in touch with them everyday by phone. Hang in there.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.