<p>Spring Break is from March 16-25. I don't have classes on Friday or Monday, so it's really more like 15-26 for me. Is it worth flying back to California?</p>
<p>I mean, it's kind of short to pay $500 to go home, but it's kind of long to just stay in an empty residence hall.</p>
<p>Why don’t you go home with a friend who lives closer? Visit Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, etc. Plenty of east coast spots don’t require a flight. Ask around.</p>
<p>I could, but wouldn’t that be kind of awkward for both me and his/her family?</p>
<p>We loved it when our kids brought friends home for holidays. Pick a friend who has a fun family, and this will probably be true for them, too (assuming you’re a good guest). You obviously can’t invite yourself, but just mention among your closer friends that you’re afraid you’ll have to stay on campus during break.</p>
<p>Exactly! We offered to host one of our son’s friends over Thanksgiving, since she couldn’t go home to Texas. In the end, her uncle in Boston had already invited her and sent her a bus ticket. We offered another friend of a friend (of mine, son hasn’t met this particular Cornell student), but he decided to stay on campus for Thanksgiving and make his own holiday meal. It is really pretty common for friends to host each other. When I was in Los Angeles for graduate school, I got to know my extended family across the state. I didn’t come home for short holidays.</p>
<p>the dorms aren’t entirely empty. I was in the dorms for most of the past two spring breaks, and since I knew other people who were in town, it was actually nice to hang out and relax.</p>
<p>Awwe, don’t go home.
During her freshman break, D brought home 3 friends including her current BF for a few days. They visited NYC for a couple of days and then drove up to Montreal for a really great time with my S.
Grab some friends and go!
But faustarp is right…dorms/apts were far from empty.</p>
<p>12 days is a long enough time to go home if you want to.</p>
<p>My dorm was nearly empty during Thanksgiving and Fall Break. There are literally less than five people who aren’t from the East Coast.</p>
<p>I know people from other dorms who went home with friends, but it still seems really weird to me to impose on other people like that. I mean, I would feel obligated to pay something but of course they wouldn’t take it. Plus, ten days is kind of a long time to stay with someone else’s family.</p>
<p>I wish they would just make Spring Break two weeks. Then again, Lawrence O’Donnell commutes from NY to LA every Thursday and then goes back on Monday…</p>
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It’s not weird at all–of course, you shouldn’t offer to pay them money–that would be rude–but you could offer to take the family out to dinner to show your gratitude. Also, if somebody lives nearby, you could visit them for only part of the break.</p>
<p>Flight cost is $350-400 NYC-LAX during spring break, and 500 from Syracuse. I would go home. </p>
<p>If you are staying with friends, I would break it up with few friends, or just visit for few days then go back to school. I think it is too long to stay with one family. They may want to have some alone time with their kid.</p>
<p>I’d go home–you’d be going home to a warm, sunny place so I think it’d be worth it for that. If not, and you don’t want to stay with a friend’s family, you could consider visiting friends from HS who are in the northeast at different colleges. That’s what I’m doing for a the two weekends, and in between I’m staying here and slaving away in studio.</p>
<p>^
What does slaving away mean? And what year are you?</p>
<p>I’m a senior in apparel design–will be working on my senior CFC collection and thesis</p>
<p>Well, at least you have an apartment, so I guess it’s not really any different from normal.</p>
<p>Most of my friends stayed on the West Coast, but I have one or two on the East.</p>