<p>"Already we can't wait for Mountain Day."</p>
<p>What is mountain day?</p>
<p>On a nice Autumn day in the middle of the week, bells will ring and classes are cancelled for the day. The much anticipated Mountain Day has arrived! Houses have activities planned; apple picking, hiking, picnics, etc.
It's a fun tradition that most take part in. Of course, there are those that use the day to catch up on sleep and work.</p>
<p>D figures that it will be on a Tuesday or Thursday this year, since she has only one class on TTh and is running solid from 10-4 on MW, 10-2:30 on F.</p>
<p>Her load is, umm, certainly emphatic if not heavy. She got a waiver for pre-req for one course and is taking a second out of a normal but not required sequence, leading her to play some catch-up from Day 1.</p>
<p>My professor thinks that it might be a Monday or Wednesday this year but I really hope that it'll be Tuesday or Thursday; MWF are heavy days that go from 8 to 4 (labs...ugh) and making those days up would be a PITA.</p>
<p>Sleep? D was fuming about missing out on sleeping in due to attending a required but useless leadership presentation. Come Apple day, she may work and sleep but she'll also do house stuff, little sister stuff, and maybe even pick apples.</p>
<p>Only a month until Family Weekend. For parents of the 11's, expect to see some changes in your D's already. Though for us the real kick in the head was when she came home the first Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>Yeah, they tend to set it on days when fewer people have classes because professors hate Mountain day, it upsets the very delicate timing of their syllabi. That being said, some years it has been on totally random days for no reason whatsoever.</p>
<p>I've forgotten what sleep is. Will someone please remind me? ;)</p>
<p>\"professors hate Mountain day, it upsets the very delicate timing of their syllabi.\"</p>
<p>After 130 years of Mountain Day celebrations, you would think professors with PhDs would have figured out by now how to adjust the timing of the syllabi accordingly. ;)</p>
<p>sleep is that thing you got before you went to Smith, and it is also that thing you never thought you needed, before you went to Smith.</p>
<p>I think the issue of "sleep" is why many students' most prized possession, garnering the most enthusiasm upon reunion during trips home, is their bed.</p>
<p>So has Mountain Day occurred yet? Last year, it was on a Tuesday, and so I figured that it would hit the M-W-F classes this year. My D expected it to be yesterday (Tuesday) because she knew she couldn't enjoy it with a big test scheduled for today. I haven't heard from her, though.</p>
<p>Never fear Momwaitingfornew, Mount Holyoke's Mountain Day was yesterday...surely Smith's can't be far behind ;) I think that they were/are all ready for the break!!</p>
<p>You figure it's this week or next at the latest....</p>
<p>Every day this week is supposed to be nice, but I would think they'd want students out of the classroom when it's as hot as it will be today.</p>
<p>I thought Mt. Day was traditionally during the first week of Oct.</p>
<p>You're probably right...I just remember that it was well before Family Weekend, which is fast upon us.</p>
<p>Pity is isn't this week. I hear the weather is positively summerly in MA, whereas autumn has hit Paris with a vengeance.</p>
<p>91 degrees (F), 42 percent humidity at the moment.</p>
<p>For anyone who wants to keep tabs long distance:</p>
<p>There's really no rhyme or reason or tradition to Mountain Day. It's before Fall Break, and supposedly they try not to hold it on the same day of the week as Otelia Cromwell Day, but that doesn't always hold true. Could be any time...</p>