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Bwog Daily Editor James Downie was procrastinating by… scoping out the 2009 academic calendar. How else? Anyway, bad news: enjoy reading week this semester, because next fall term, there’ll only a “Study Day.”
“Oh no!” you say? Oh yes. Exams run from Wednesday to Wednesday, rather than Friday to Friday, meaning that we have just a solitary day of preparation: Tuesday, December 15th, 2009. Break itself is shorter too; just 26 days, assuming you get out on that Wednesday.
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@Wow I’m glad I got out when I did.
@ummmmmm We need to get someone on this. Also, remember that professors don’t want to stay until the 23rd either. We are also entitled to the registrar set date so they can’t exactly get around it by setting the final on an earlier date. Get some professors and the student body on this!
@... fuck this school
@poor boy yeah….flights are going to be extremely expensive. So now not only do I get to fail my exams, I also don’t get to celebrate christmas at home.
once again, columbia sucks.
@true... A lot of people will probably fail their exams, so you will be in the same lousy boat.
@well... if exams are curved, maybe the curve will be bigger? So instead of having a 50 curved to a B+, you will have a 40 curved to a B+?
@WTF Day! I TOLD THEM WTF IS THIS, NOW COLUMBIA IS GONNA THROW SOME D’s ON MY SHIT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq9uUxj8Jww
@please, adil? …and whoever’s doing policy for next year? or whoever can do something about this? does columbia just want to make its students cry ALL THE TIME?
@another senior Does the administration just get worse every single year? It’s not as if we really even have a reading week as it is. The priority in scheduling should be to produce a semester of fixed length, with a fixed and fair exam period. Labor Day should not set the parameters of the entire calendar. Anyway, good that I’m a senior.
@lol ccsc No sorry they have to do stuff that most people did not elect them to do, eg: NROTC, trying to run around with student groups, and so forth.
@cc2010 someone get the councils on this shit!
@to make up for it... …i heard we’re going to have a whole week of homecoming. best trade EVER.
@Johnny I noticed this since last year. Seriously, Can ccsc do anything about this? The solution is really easy…Just move everything up a week and have us start school earlier than labor day. A lot of Columbia students don’t live in the area, and flights home on Dec. 23 and 24 are really expensive. The administration already fucks everyone over by waiting to announce the exam dates until November, and this is an even bigger load of shit.
@flights they are super expensive on those days. columbia, stop being a classist sonofabitch
@wow we should definitely start classes before labor day… that’s gonna suck something massive
@CC07 Yeah they did this in the fall of 04 too. It sucked.
@wow, cc07 and you STILL read the bwog. that sucks.
@jesus why the totally unnecessary nastiness?
@this sucks fat crusty dick
@awesome Classes don’t start until Sept. 8?? That means I can go to Burning Man!!
@WTF WTF
@umm no way so if i have finals on that last wednesday then I have to fly home on christmas eve day….damn tickets are going to be expensive as hell
@lol Why not just start classes a week earlier? Sure, it’s nice for upperclassmen to have a 3-day weekend to move in, but it seems like the better solution to the Christmas problem is just moving in the week earlier.
@this sucksss great, FUCKING great. im going abroad that spring which means that i have one week before i have to be in london. i am livid.
@j. timberlake cry me a river
@damn it feels good to be a senior.
@class of 2009 haha, suckers!!!
@1+1=2 It’s clearly because Labor Day is six days later next year than it was this year. Pushing everything forward by six days, that would send this year’s exam schedule to December 18th-25th. As Godless as our liberal institution is, even it doesn’t want to make us take exams on Christmas.
@its called so finals dont conflict with jesus’ birthday
@did you notice that classes don’t start until sept 8th?
@but #2 as an English major I feel I have to add “not that I have exams anyway.”
@but it seems more like a reaction to MLK day being early than anything else. this way we get a break closer to 4 weeks than 3. and SP10 is back to the normal Tuesday-Thursday reading “week” anyway.
@free food!!!!! bwog there’s free food in roone arledge right now if you’re willing to look at some poster boards about the manhattanville expansion
@confused... why the change?
@wow glad i’m a senior. that is just terrible!
@hell fucking no
@thank god i’m a senior!