{"id":13109,"date":"2016-02-16T13:38:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=13109"},"modified":"2017-07-11T09:13:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T14:13:19","slug":"your-voice-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2016\/02\/16\/your-voice-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"
What do you think about “snow days” in college? Are they given too little or too often? Do “snow days” inconvenience you or do you enjoy them?<\/h5>\n

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John Krafka, Aviation Maintenance Technician\"John_Krafka<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re awesome, can\u2019t get enough of them. I think they\u2019re given enough, we know how to drive in snow here, so I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a big deal if there\u2019s a little snow on the ground, we all can make it here. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s an excess given, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s not enough given. No, what\u2019s a day here missed on the syllabus, you know what I mean? We can make up a day here and there, it\u2019s not a big deal, it happens. We have to adjust in life, that\u2019s what it is. . . [On snow days] I stay inside, I bundle up, I get inside of a blanket with a heater on and I just don\u2019t even worry about going outside. I eat food and relax.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nate Buchanan, Liberal Arts Major\"Nate<\/a><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI love them because it gives you a break. I\u2019m a returning student, I was at Sinclair back in 2010, and I dropped out because I couldn\u2019t focus enough, but snow days would have really helped me have a break from all the chaos. . . this year has been okay, I would say. I would say one day we had was really bad. That was really the worse weather day we\u2019ve had. . . no, [snow days are not an inconvenience] because I really just have to drive into school, and I usually find out there\u2019s no class when I get here. I\u2019m not the kind of person that gets mad at that stuff. If anything, I just drive to school, and if I have the time, I just spend it doing homework or something. It gives me more time with that because I can\u2019t do it at home, I don\u2019t focus at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Julia Guzman, Biology Major\"Julia_Guzman\"<\/a><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a little rough sometimes, especially if you have morning classes, to make an effort to get here knowing that other schools are closed. . . but other than that, not too bad. Considering this year, we haven\u2019t had a terrible winter, but in past years, I feel like we should have [had more snow days]. I know a few weeks ago I missed my first science lab because of how terrible [the weather] was. School wasn\u2019t cancelled. I missed it because I couldn\u2019t get my car out of the snow. I feel like we should get some more [snow days], or at least delays. A lot of my professors in past years have been really good with cancelling their own classes. I like that. . . as long as it\u2019s one day, we\u2019ll get past it, because I know the rest of the week, I know what\u2019s going to happen later in the week, and it\u2019s easy to adjust. I feel like a lot of professors and students get scared of not sticking to the schedule, but it\u2019s easy to adjust.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Zach King, Multimedia Journalism Major\"Zach_King\"<\/a><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re pretty great but kind of inconvenient when it comes to doing school work, coming to school and trying to get stuff done. Sometimes the class understands and they push things back, but sometimes classes don\u2019t push due dates back, and that kind of messes me up a little bit. It\u2019s just having the time\u2014sometimes I have to come to Sinclair to work on things, and not having that availability because of the snow being that bad, if we\u2019re having a snow day here, it\u2019s rough. . . this year there\u2019s been no snow. The previous year, I feel like it\u2019s been pretty fair. There were so many bad days that they had to just open school even though weather conditions and the roads weren\u2019t the best. But I don\u2019t blame them because kids have to go to school eventually. It\u2019s been pretty in the middle of the road. . . please let there be more snow so we can have some snow days!\u201d<\/p>\n

Reporting and photos by <\/em>Maggie Stacey<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do you think about “snow days” in college? Are they given too little or too often? Do “snow days” inconvenience you or do you enjoy them?   John Krafka, Aviation Maintenance Technician \u201cThey\u2019re awesome, can\u2019t get enough of them. I think they\u2019re given enough, we know how to drive in snow here, so I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[2019],"class_list":["post-13109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-maggie-stacey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-3pr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13111,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions\/13111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}