Campus was open today, after closing Sunday and Monday for the storm. We did not go in, however, as the roads remain dreadful. We have a wide latitude for this decision, fortunately. It’s a large campus. There are several locations, and also hospital facilities and so on. People come in from three states, and the university is aware that the weather here may not be the weather there. Also, road conditions. And, this time, also, ice.
Everything is hilariously frozen solid. It’ll remain so for more than a week. Even I will go stir-crazy at the amount of indoors activities. (Update: That happened about Saturday.)
And who knows about those country road conditions between here and there, anyway. (Update: On Thursday, still not great!)
The policy is that students won’t have it marked against them. I, a professor who uses attendance policies, appreciate and honor the discretion this allows students. Also, being from the South, I’m going to want to make safe choices, too. Fortunately, I have that ability. What an employer, huh?
So we decided last night that, since the roads we could walk to looked terrible, we weren’t going to try drive 20-25 minutes on poorly-if-at-all-cleared roads. I put some material online that I’d planned to discuss today, sent a message to my students, and that was that. I hope they all read it. I hope they’re all warm and safe. Or sledding down a hill somewhere.
This allowed me to catch up a bit, which is great, because now I can get ahead of things for Thursday.
Just pretend there are several paragraphs here that have to do with reading and typing.
Also, pretend there’s a video here. I meant for a video to be right here, but it won’t upload just now. Perhaps tomorrow.
Tomorrow, which will be similarly frozen! (Single digit nights, barely double digit days!) And even more productive!
