The Snowy Abyss We Call Home

A month into the so-called Spring semester, but does it feel like classes have been going on for four weeks? Not so much.

With all the snow days, partial cancellations, and of course, Ski Day the Spring semester has been filled with days off. So, what does this mean for students? Many recall having to go to school nearly into July back in high school and one could argue that college courses are more vital to a students' education than those in high school.

Students ask their professors how we're going to make up the lost time. The reply is "It's not high school anymore, we don't really make classes up, we just abbreviate the syllabus."

There is a certain sense of freedom when a professor creates his or hers syllabus for the semester, an allowance for absences, or a 'week off' where you can play catch up while the instructor is out of town, as the case may be. But with an excess of cancellation of class, these 'freedom perks' may not be able to be utilized.

 "I wish, if anything the snow wouldn't have to always be on Wednesdays," said an anonymous PSU student, as she has one class that has only met once due to recent cancellations and Ski Day. Others have been relishing in the white fluffy stuff and heading up to Loon or Cannon on a weekly basis to shred the slopes.

Then there are students like freshman Colleen Garrity who doesn't have any classes on Wednesdays, so the recurring closings have not bothered her.

It seems that the consensus among students is that snow days are always welcome, more so than in high school, since there are technically no make-up days.