Nor’easter Juno brought back the #CabriniBlackout for the fourth time in this school year alone with a smaller amount of snow than what the meteorologists were predicting and of course additional school work.
According to text messages sent out last year via Cabrini’s emergency text services, there were a total of eight days when Cabrini cancelled classes. This year, as a way to not fall behind in the syllabus, Academic Affairs implemented a plan for when classes are cancelled. Faculty must provide some form of alternative instruction or assignment to stay up-to-date with the class material. This plan was meant to keep students and professors on track with the syllabus to prevent students from falling behind.. But the reality is, this plan has some students stressing on their day off.
For many different reasons that Cabrini’s facilities could not always control, the four blackouts across campus has been a consistent problem this year. However, adding those issues on top of having to get schoolwork done by a certain time on a day that your classes are cancelled is a problem that students all across campus dealt with this past Tuesday.
About 42 percent of those who took the survey do not like the implementation, about 38 percent said maybe and about 19 percent said they liked it.
Professors, on the other hand, prefer the snow day assignments because normally there would be class on the day that is canceled, so why not assign work? Well most students see it completely different. The hustle and bustle of being a college student, extremely involved in extracurricular activities whether on-campus or off and still trying to get all of your homework, projects, papers and readings done normally takes a good amount of time. Adding extra work on top of everything really pushes the workload over the edge.
According to a survey created and shared via social media, “I understand that professors don’t want to get behind but some students are still doing assignments that were assigned a week ago and trying to catch up so why add more to the pile.”
