<p>CMU students got Monday off...and now have Tuesday off for a second snow day....</p>
<p>More snow forecast for Wednesday</p>
<p>Take heart-- this hasn't happened in thirty years</p>
<p>There were limited dining venues open over the weekend- as workers could not get to campus ...</p>
<p>CMU might get 6-12 more inches on Tuesday.</p>
<p>I only remember one snow day in the four years I was there, and that was only after the mayor asked the university to shut down for the day to keep its employees off the road.</p>
<p>My S says that is what happened this time. The mayor has asked CMU to shut down to allow for snow removal.</p>
<p>The Tartan online has a lot of good pictures of campus:</p>
<p>[The</a> Tartan Online : Show your snow](<a href=“The Tartan – Carnegie Mellon's Student Newspaper Since 1906.”>The Tartan – Carnegie Mellon's Student Newspaper Since 1906.)</p>
<p>DS said Forbes still wasn’t plowed after two days. The city’s goal is to get the streets all plowed before the snow starts again!</p>
<p>We saw the 59U, campus police, and facilities management get stuck in snow in turn. It was like a hilarious comedy routine. Here’s to hoping we’ll have a snow week instead of a snow day!</p>
<p>Riding the bus is like an Indiana Jones jeep adventure. Lots of bumps and ice patches. :D</p>
<p>but you don’t really want a snow week and although it’s fun to have the snow to play in on the weekend—…reality, professors have to cover the material in the 15 weeks-- there’s not going to be any make-up lectures for most of the classes (b/c everyone already has too packed a schedule)…so students will get stuck speeding up the curriculum or reading material that will be on the exams regardless if class is held or not…you should be hopeful that classes resume on Wednesday…</p>
<p>and perhaps given the $40,000 on tuition, we might remember that every day missed is quite a bit of your (parents??) money down the drain…</p>
<p>Beyond one day of missed classes (assuming MWF or T/TH), a third day is just really going to mess up the coverage of materials and add more stress to an already stressful place to be…</p>
<p>A lot of professors are still sending us material to work on via email. My homework and papers are still due Wednesday and Friday as planned. I came to college not just to study my butt off, but to also enjoy a completely different world from the Californian coast. To me, this snow is a new and exciting experience, and my parents have told me they’re glad I’ve gotten a chance to see how weather can affect a place where the climate is often inhospitable. Yesterday I went sledding for the first time in my life and had my first snow day, and to me, that’s infinitely more exhilarating and useful than my basic Statistics course will ever be. The $40k covers life experience, not just tuition and board.</p>
<p>Snow sledding much more fun and thrilling than stats-- no arguments there kate…</p>
<p>But the $40k on tuition is for the lectures
The $13k for room, board and personal expenses covers the sledding and the snow day experience…
Obviously not a Tepper student…a missed class is a sunk cost and that is money spent and no service received.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t want to miss more than one class…and if there’s a lab involved, that really messed up the schedule with only one lab section per week for some MCS and CIT classes…what do students do who had the M/T night lab and missed…but the W/TH night lab runs…everyone is then screwed…</p>
<p>Snow is beautiful…I loved seeing my D’s FB pictures of her butt on a box and a trash lid with friends going down some hill somewhere…and sleeping in for 4 days straight smack in the middle of the semester …rather priceless…</p>
<p>I imagine many professors will do a make-up lecture at some point later in the semester if they lose a class or two. In the fall many professors have to miss a day or two due to travel for conferences/grants, and spring generally has fewer things going on (at least in my field).</p>
<p>I imagine most students will just wind up with an extra lecture at some point during the semester at 6 PM.</p>
<p>and now classes on Wednesday are also canceled.</p>
<p>CMU President Jared Cohon offers to help: [CMU</a> Could Help Improve Pittsburgh’s Snow Plowing - Pittsburgh Weather News Story - WTAE Pittsburgh](<a href=“http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/weather/22514126/detail.html]CMU”>http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/weather/22514126/detail.html)</p>
<p>Yeah, CMU definitely sounds <annoyed> at the city; per their web site announcement:</annoyed></p>
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<p>I’ve done so much work on these snow days, it’s pretty ridiculous. With p-sets and labs due electronically Thursday at midnight (yay computer science…) the whole no school = no work theory doesn’t quite fly. Still, i get just as excited as anybody else each night when we hear the news. It really doesn’t feel like a “waste” of money so much as an opportunity to focus on the work for the classes that are imo “worth” the money and skip (with no repercussions) the ones that are not.</p>