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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am debating whether my college kid should just return home on Saturday. He's not far away, and as soon as classes start up again, he could easily go back.

What do you think?

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Tell me you are an overprotective parent without telling me you are an overprotective parent.

Unless, the school says otherwise, a college campus during a blizzard is a great time. Most classes will be cancelled and most can just chill out.[/quote]

I went to a southern school, so didn't experience any snowstorms, but I seriously am having a hard time imagining anything more fun than a blizzard that shuts down campus for a couple of days.  This isn't a hurricane or a tornado, FFS.

No classes
School administration will undertake heroic efforts to make sure everyone is fed, warm, and safe.  
Stock up on beer, etc.  
Massive snowball fights.
Trudging across campus to visit friends and go to parties, or to the to the store for more beer, etc.  
Sledding down any available hill on dining hall trays.  
The next day . . . same thing.

And some of you think your kids should come home?  My parents couldn't have dragged me away.  Any kid who wants to come home isn't doing college right.  
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HAd a kid in the midwest in 2019 Polar vortex.  The kids survive.  Classes were cancelled.  Dining was open, and the school even opened "back doors" at the main dining hall so kids could eliminate an extra block of walking around to main door (nice idea when it's -50 out).  Now think of the lower income people who work at your kid's school who manage to stay on campus or come in during the cold/snow to ensure the kids are feed/bathrooms cleaned/etc.  Appreciate them 
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