<p>So we had a snow day today...awesome...and I was talking to a friend who said that Penn State DELAYED CLASSES - which kinda surprised me because I didn't think colleges closed/delayed for anything (except for natural disasters etc.). So, Chicago having the horrible weather that it does, does UC ever close/delay classes? Just curious :)</p>
<p>That should be, as far as I know, very rare. I haven't heard of any classes being canceled because of snow.</p>
<p>There has been snow - often heavy - for the last 24 hours, so it is thick on the ground, and many of the paths across the quads are unplowed and thus barely usable, but getting to classes is still not hard at all. It is pretty.</p>
<p>not usually- but one of my friends had her class cancelled today because the prof didn't live nearby and couldn't get here cause of the snow. so it happens sometimes.</p>
<p>10-11 week quarters don't leave much room for snow days!</p>
<p>here's what my sosc professor said about this topic last quarter: </p>
<p>in my first year at the u of c in 1984, there was the coldest day chicago had ever had and everything in the city was completely shut down... except for the u of c! the president of the university at the time when on the news and was asked why the u of c wasn't shut down on such a freezing day. he said, "the university of chicago is all about the life of the mind; not the life of the body!" </p>
<p>there you have it.</p>
<p>Nice. :) Ok, no more snow days in my future...I can handle that.</p>
<p>But death of body = death of mind.</p>
<p>Or are UChicago-ans adamantly against materialism?</p>
<p>Yeah, and somehow, certain professors will never be held up by the snow. In one of my classes, the professor was flying in from North Carolina this morning, and as we had 12 inches of snow on the ground and conditions were awful, we were expecting him to be gone. But no, his plane arrived and he got to the university JUST in time for our class to start. Damn your determination to educate us, U of C profs!</p>
<p>"the university of chicago is all about the life of the mind; not the life of the body!"</p>
<p>would that make students children of the mind then?
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Children-Mind-Ender-Book-Quartet/dp/0765304740/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201928208&sr=8-1%5B/url%5D">http://www.amazon.com/Children-Mind-Ender-Book-Quartet/dp/0765304740/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201928208&sr=8-1</a></p>
<p>hah.</p>
<p>yeah one of my other professors is from NH and she flies in every week... she was at school today, no problems...</p>
<p>If she's from NH (the live free or die state) a little Chicago weather isn't going to slow her down that much!</p>
<p>Well, considering that flights have been cancelled lately to/from O'Hare, it seems rather unlikely that professors could make it here according to their normal schedules. I have no idea how they do. Teleportation, maybe.</p>
<p>I make my own snow day. If my prof asks where i was i just point to the window and say "I had a great-grand pappy that died in 9 inches of snow and I promised myself that I WOULD NEVER FOLLOW IN THAT MAN'S FOOTSTEPS". Then the prof is like "Dude, shut the hell up." and I'm like "Sorry."</p>