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Perhaps you’ve noticed the upsurge in would-be future Columbians on campus this past week; it’s been difficult not to, since they seem to outnumber pigeons (if only Hawkma could provide us so simple a solution).
Hordes of hopeful 2013s (and beyond!) are using their spring breaks to get acquainted with Alma, and Bwog has had reports of groups commiting gross human rights violations. “A tour guide opened my door without asking or knocking and then a good 40 people looked inside my room like I was some sort of zoo animal,” reports freshman Rachel Allen.
The silver lining? At least These Economic Times don’t seem to have deterred high schoolers from considering Columbia. Go Lions!
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@if anyone cares Most northern public schools get one week off in February for President’s week, and one week off in April for Spring Break. However, private schools get a 5 day weekend, or at least I did, for President’s Weekend and “Mid-Winter Break” and then 2 weeks in March for Spring Break. And then school is usually done by the end of May, whereas in public schools it customarily finishes by the middle of June. Again, if anyone cares.
And @ Pennsylvania, my school used to alternate each year between having Good Friday off and having Rosh Hashanah off–talk about Judeo-Christian.
@future 2013 The break is indeed a “Winter Recess,” celebrating Presidents’ Week. The vacation is standard in many northern schools, which unlike southern ones, honor Lincoln’s birthday. I’ve been off all week ;).
@Oil Man The real reason they have a midwinter recess is to save money on heating costs– if you close school during the coldest time of the year, you need not spend so much money to heat the buildings.
@for the 2013s http://www.wikicu.com/Prefrosh
@guido have you seen any of my kind around?
@I've also noticed many, many prospective students sitting in on my CC class. Why do they do this to themselves? Also, why don’t go to lithum instead?
@Pennsylvania Oh, how I’d love a February break, either back in high school or here at Columbia.
Or, you know. Just having Easter Monday off would be pretty nice, too.
@joo this is just such a joke.
@on the west coast we have midwinter break too. I thought it was pretty standard. Apparently not.
@The Old Dominion Well, back home in Virginia, we’ve never heard of this ‘February Break.’ Must be a Yankee invention. After President’s Day, we had no break until Spring Break, whose dates varied from year to year, depending on whenever Easter was.
@New Jersey NJ public schools have a “Mid-Winter Recess” too, with spring break being in April, since school ends at the end of June.
@Another Long Islander Yeah we have something called “Mid-Winter Recess” every February. It’s pretty nice but usually means that our Spring Break is shorter than most.
@Midwest Love It’s February Back, a time-honored tradition where those from Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and the rest of the Great White North get time off to visit the grandparents in Boca, the slopes in Colorado, and the colleges off of I-95.
@long islander Pretty much all public schools on the east coast have February break right now.
@not a long islander “the east coast” must not include the South, then. We never had “February break.”
Whoo! Sweeping generalizations!
@what? long island does not equal the east coast. who has a break in february?
@#3 is one of the best bwog comments i’ve read in a long time.
@what the hell? Who is Rachel Allen? Tour guides clearly do not go inside the residence halls during tours.
@Columbia tour guide Columbia tours don’t go inside residence halls but apparently Barnard tour guides have lists of rooms where at least one of the occupants have agreed to let people see their room.
@123 Spring Break? It’s February, are they all from the southern hemisphere?