If your student is away at college now (living on campus or very close by) what activities are there

[Anonymous]

I'm curious about schools, and what their expectations are for weekend activities. Obviously they don't want students to go to large parties, but are universities planning other, smaller activities? I was reading a forum about Notre Dame and saw they are having a "virtual dance party" and I was wondering what other schools are doing.

[Anonymous]

A mask-making event.

This is not a joke.

[Anonymous]

-posting tik toks
-posting snaps
-posting stories

Same as before.

[Anonymous]

in-person trivia night

[Anonymous]

It’s the same stuff they always offered that kids skipped to go to parties. Paint night, movies on the lawn, outdoor yoga, a bunch of virtual stuff. According to the facebook group for parents, kids are miserable stuck in their singles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s the same stuff they always offered that kids skipped to go to parties. Paint night, movies on the lawn, outdoor yoga, a bunch of virtual stuff. According to the facebook group for parents, kids are miserable stuck in their singles.

So the school is offering things and the students just stay in their rooms instead? That's on them, not on the college. Yoga or outdoor movies may not be their thing but this is a time to try new stuff and not let "I want to do what I used to do" make them choose to be miserable.

And "I want to do what I used to do" is what's driving off-campus partying that is spiking Covid clusters and shutting down in-person classes.

The kids sitting in singles need to get some Jackbox games and play them remotely with friends at least.

[Anonymous]

Kids need to approach this as: I can either be sent home to look at a computer screen with my friends spread across the country, or be here at college with a kind of lame experience, but at least I’m here and can see people.

Not: But I’m being deprived of the super-fun kind of year I had last year!

[Anonymous]

I am up In Amherst MA at dinner at the Texas Roadhouse. I see absolutely no difference. I moved daughter and I was only one with mask at her apt complex. There was 16 people moving in at once all no masks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am up In Amherst MA at dinner at the Texas Roadhouse. I see absolutely no difference. I moved daughter and I was only one with mask at her apt complex. There was 16 people moving in at once all no masks

Second person today that told me masks are off in the northeast. Covid will be happy to make it's return!

[Anonymous]

I have no idea. I dropped him off on Monday and I expect him to figure that out.

[Anonymous]

They're partying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am up In Amherst MA at dinner at the Texas Roadhouse. I see absolutely no difference. I moved daughter and I was only one with mask at her apt complex. There was 16 people moving in at once all no masks

UMass? Because Amherst College is supposed to be locked down with the kids not allowed to leave campus. I heard one kid was already sent home for going into town.

[Anonymous]

Doing the same thing as the DCUM crowd: Day drinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s the same stuff they always offered that kids skipped to go to parties. Paint night, movies on the lawn, outdoor yoga, a bunch of virtual stuff. According to the facebook group for parents, kids are miserable stuck in their singles.

So the school is offering things and the students just stay in their rooms instead? That's on them, not on the college. Yoga or outdoor movies may not be their thing but this is a time to try new stuff and not let "I want to do what I used to do" make them choose to be miserable.

And "I want to do what I used to do" is what's driving off-campus partying that is spiking Covid clusters and shutting down in-person classes.

The kids sitting in singles need to get some Jackbox games and play them remotely with friends at least.

I agree, but my kid wouldn’t go to this stuff last year and I don’t blame them this year. The problem is that half the kids come in knowing someone and quickly make a group of friends. The quieter kids who show up with no one are screwed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s the same stuff they always offered that kids skipped to go to parties. Paint night, movies on the lawn, outdoor yoga, a bunch of virtual stuff. According to the facebook group for parents, kids are miserable stuck in their singles.

So the school is offering things and the students just stay in their rooms instead? That's on them, not on the college. Yoga or outdoor movies may not be their thing but this is a time to try new stuff and not let "I want to do what I used to do" make them choose to be miserable.

And "I want to do what I used to do" is what's driving off-campus partying that is spiking Covid clusters and shutting down in-person classes.

The kids sitting in singles need to get some Jackbox games and play them remotely with friends at least.

I agree, but my kid wouldn’t go to this stuff last year and I don’t blame them this year. The problem is that half the kids come in knowing someone and quickly make a group of friends. The quieter kids who show up with no one are screwed.

At state schools half the kids come in knowing someone.