<p>She’s started cooking exotic recipes. She’s finished all her reading and then read ahead (!). She’s tired of watching TV, doing whatever she does on the computer. Tired of snowball fights. Tired of Scattergories, Scrabble, Monopoly, and whatever games they are playing.</p>
<p>I feel for her, but it’s still funny to me. She didn’t just get a snow day, she got a snow week!! Here’s hoping the campuses in DC (and the rest of city) come back to life in the very near future :)</p>
<p>My daughters college is shut down for a week too. Last Thursday night I told her just to come home - we are 2 hours away and she wanted to stay. Her roommates are there but she said a lot of freshmen went home.<br>
She is at a small college and so far two kids have needed to be rushed to the hospital - one was a compound fracture from a fall while playing in the snow. </p>
<p>She enjoyed the first few days but now has cabin fever. She is also worried about classes and expects to get hammered when they get back on Monday (hopefully).
It has been too much of a good thing.</p>
<p>I had that the last two years. We got hit with ice and missed at least 4 days of class each year. Yeah, it’s nice for the first day or two especially since I didn’t have to leave the building to eat or anything. But then you get tired of it and just want to get back to class. I’d much rather be out of class when it’s 80 out than when it’s 20 and solid ice…</p>
<p>My kid’s school in PA had a facebook group dedicated to getting a snow day (2500!). Actually it turned into a group that complained about NOT getting a snow day…lol. I think they’re feeling left out.</p>
<p>D’s college in PA is cancelling on a class-by-class basis according to the professor. All her friends’ classes were cancelled, but not hers. I told her that it is because the prof knew she was from Minnesota and that she could make it in. She was not amused… then I reminded her that she is there to go to class, and so we are getting our money’s worth more than the other students are. Again… she was not amused :)</p>
<p>I would kill to have a snow day. It got so bad one day last semester they should have closed it (a pipe even busted). But no, because it was the week before finals they couldn’t :(</p>
<p>D in DC is on 4th straight day of cancelled classes, and her internship is with a gov’t agency, so she can’t do that either! I am starting to think of the cost/class missed. It is really adding up, and I don’t think those classes will be made up.</p>
<p>My kids never mentioned any “fire days” but probably could have used them, as they were having trouble with their asthma due to the fires. Oh well, this is all temporary anyway.</p>
<p>DS is on fifth day of campus being closed in the DC region. It’s not as bad as it would have been when I was in college…at least they have cable TV and internet access. Kids are doing stuff like snowball fights and sledding. Thankfully, his parking permit is for a covered garage…there are a lot of cars that have yet to be dug out from last week’s storm and they are headed into storm #3. o.O</p>
<p>After a week of no school in the DC area, my son is tired of it too. Even if campus is open tomorrow, he doesn’t have any classes scheduled on Fridays. Monday is a holiday. Sheesh, no school for a week and a half at that point.</p>
<p>S goes back to class today in DC (if he still remembers how to find his way there). School is making up the lost days at the end of the semester, but I wonder how many profs will just cancel those classes.</p>
<p>S and I have an appointment to tour George Mason in Fairfax VA on Thursday, Feb 18th. School has been cancelled for the past four days and just reopened today. Does anybody know how the roads are in this area and if there is a warm-up forcasted for next week that might melt some of this snow? We are from NY and were hoping to use the February break to visit some schools.</p>