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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband is a professor at UMd.  Teachervone vlass this semester that is on Tues and Thurs evenings at 7.

He planned on teaching but university shut down dorms at 7 pm. Rather than asking kids to bring luggage etc to class, and try to leave from there at 830, he cancelled.

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They shut down the dorms for Thanksgiving and kicked everyone out?  Is every student there within driving distance? [/quote]

I was wondering the same thing.  Do the colleges actually kick the kids out for a 4 day weekend?  [/quote]

My college kept dorms open for Thanksgiving and Easter, but there was no meal service. This sucked if you had no family to go home to or you lived too far away/lacked the funds to travel. Res Life always made sure international students were hosted by local students or professors, but as a poor kid, I had to smuggle food out every year before Good Friday. [/quote]
These days, Uber Eats and other delivery services are shuttling food to college dorms every day. No one is up a creek without food over a break anymore.[/quote]

It is nice to have money.[/quote]

I guess PP missed that part. People completely miss the impact on kids without means. They need to keep the dorms open, and if they close dining they need to leave box meals. I used to make mac and cheese on a hot pot. I had to walk to a convenience store because grocery stores were too far from campus. [/quote]

And I used to make ramen as a poor college student. Plenty of us went to college on very strict budges and worked our way through.

PP pointed out that colleges make arrangements for group dinners with faculty. Sounds like a lot more hand-holding that we were used to.[/quote]

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