<p>Well, we saw 5 colleges this weekend and I knew that weekends were not the best time to see a school because of few kids, but I had no idea how literaly empty thse campuses were on a weekend…it was actually creepy, I was thinking I was in some B movie where just a few of us were left on the planet</p>
<p>Mind you these was LA area schools, but it was striking how empty it was…I mean on a campus of 18000 students, to see ten, and all in the gym was just strange</p>
<p>They weren’t on break were they? I know one of my kids is on break, classes resume Tuesday. But yeah, campuses can feel dead on weekends. Everybody’s sleeping. We were on my son’s campus on a Thursday morning recently and I’ve never seen so many kids scurrying about! It was nice!</p>
<p>Most schools are on Fall Break right around this time.</p>
<p>What time of day were you there? Are you sure they weren’t all just sleeping? = ) Most campuses <em>look</em> pretty empty until early afternoon, on weekends.</p>
<p>That’s right. It is Fall break this weekend. So, my S is home too.</p>
<p>Also, note that these kids tend to stay up very very late on weekends. My S casually mentioned to me that he usually stays up till 2 am. Consequently, they sleep in till noon next day. </p>
<p>So, it’s not surprising that campuses are forlorn this weekend.</p>
<p>Fall break here in our state too. S attends a big state u. with an undergrad pop. of well over 20,000 but I think only 8-9,000 actually live on campus. So the huge numbers that are there thru the week are visibly absent on weekends, especially if there is no home football game. They are scattered about in the dozens of apt. complexes nearby.</p>
<p>it was amazing, on a campus of over 20,000 we saw ten people at 1030, and maybe saw a total of 15 by 1100…twilight zone…</p>
<p>3:00 a.m. bedtimes - lunch is breakfast, if they wake up in time. ;)</p>
<p>cgm, probably won’t see them till about 2 or 3 PM. I know I didn’t come out of the woodworks at my dorm till about then on weekends.</p>
<p>wow, its jsut so weird, it was beautiful out, and I would think just sitting under a tree with a latte would be welcome after all that stail dorm air…</p>
<p>and what a waste of a day…</p>
<p>yeah, that’s the difference between moms and college students :)</p>
<p>at 2pm, the day is just beginning for most… and I don’t know about that school but I don’t know where somebody at my school would have gotten a latte unless they were way off campus at a starbucks or something.</p>
<p>Also remember that, for example, this is midterms week for many college students (myself included) meaning that things kind of slow down for a while even during the week.</p>
<p>While studying outside sounds excellent, hauling all my books along with my laptop and suitable study refreshments sounds like too much effort :)</p>
<p>My kid will occasionally IM me on weekends around noon his time, telling me he “got up early today”. :)</p>
<p>We don’t have fall break here, but we do have parties on Friday nights.</p>
<p>After a good party, most of my friends go to bed sometime between 3 AM and 5 AM, with an average around 3:30 or 4 AM. (2 AM is bedtime on weekdays… even with 9 AM classes.) Consequently, it’s not unusual to wake up around 1:30 PM. Also remember that people may be up and about within their dorms or downtown. You see a lot fewer students around campus outside during the weekend because there aren’t as many deadlines or places to be, so people hang out in one place for longer. On weekdays people may hang out on the quads outside for a half hour or hour in between classes or while eating lunch. You see them around campus because they’re on campus anyway. During the weekends, people may be relaxing with friends in their dorm or at a coffee shop or in the nearest town/city. </p>
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Perhaps you live more on Saturday morning, but I lived more on Friday night (and the earliest hours of Saturday). Daytime is not inherently superior to night time. I sleep on Saturday morning while you’re awake sitting under a tree with a latte, but you’re asleep on Friday night when I’m out with my friends laughing, meeting people, flirting, dancing, watching movies, hanging out, running through sprinklers, talking with close friends in darkened dorm rooms, or whatever else. When I’m working during the summer, I’m in bed around 11 and awake by 6. In college, my waking hours and sleeping hours shift. To each his own.</p>
<p>If you were at USC know that 1] there is only housing on campus for around3000 students- the rest are scattered around the area in apts/ frats, etc. 2] about 40% of USC students are from LA, and many Fresh/ Soph go home on the weekends. 3] students do sleep in late on the weekends, cause they are up late at night partying.</p>
<p>If you were at USC yesterday, most likely everyone was watching the USC-Notre Dame game on TV. And also like I said people here have midterms last week and next week, so I wouldn’t expect a lot of people to be out and about.</p>
<p>If you were at UCLA on Saturday, there were about 18,000 students at the UCLA/CAL game, at the RoseBowl. So I would imagine there weren’t all that many left wandering about campus.</p>
<p>CGS - don’t know about the west coast, but a friend of mine found the same desolation at Coastal College in North Carolina when they arrived on a Sunday afternoon. It really bothered her and her son, but fortunately they were staying over for appointments on Monday morning. When they asked about the weekend their student guide informed them that in good weather the students all go to the beach for the weekend. :)</p>
<p>It happened to my neighbor and her D visiting Wash U, they were disappointed because the admission office didn’t say to them they would have a fall break.</p>
<p>My son calls it “time shifting”. He’s awake the same number of hours as I am… just DIFFERENT hours!</p>