Happy First Day of Classes, Brown Students!

Brown79
Sat, 12 Sep 2020 02:24:45 +0000

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the update essentially saying: “this doesn’t affect your kid or change the fact that they won’t start full-time college till January, but just FYI everyone else at Brown has the option to start in the Fall on-campus.” < I can imagine how frustrating it must be. Perhaps some of the perspective which follows will help a bit:

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What Brown is doing is pulling out all the stops to give 2024 the best shot possible at a full in-person first year. It’s tremendously more expensive this way (I should probably just mail them my checkbook…) and goes way beyond what most schools are willing or even able to do.

As is being seen at other colleges, simply putting everyone back on campus is inviting disaster. By starting with the relatively more mature upper classes, lessons can hopefully be learned and communal behavior standards solidified before a thousand or so former HS students are suddenly in the mix – most on their own for the first time and long on enthusiasm, but short on experience with how seemingly innocuous choices can have life-changing consequences.