On-campus students would benefit from online flexibility
Editorial Board
Issue date: 8/28/09 Section: Ed-Op
After 10 weeks of classes in a season where your friends have been exploring the beaches and hotels on vacation, you've been in class. Some of you have taken on the excruciating pain of looking for a co-op in a recession. Some of you have been on co-op, wearing a suit and tie in 90 degree weather. But all of that is coming to an end, and now it's time to take the vacation that's long overdue.
It might seem disappointing that your friends at other universities have already experienced their summer vacation just as yours is finally beginning, but think of it this way: you have an edge over your friends at Temple and Penn State. While they spend their summers at overly crowded and humid beaches, barely able to find room to park their belongings, you will be able to experience a relatively peaceful beach vacation. Generally, in September, the only people who will be taking summer vacations are retirees and perhaps young families. Since peak travel time is past, hotel and camping rates are rather affordable. And if we're lucky, maybe this unbearable heat will start to cool down, bringing on pleasant pre-fall weather.
So, enjoy your three weeks off, a brief respite from Drexel's rigorous pace. It might seem like a poor excuse for a summer break, but it might turn out to be better than anticipated. Take advantage of these upcoming quiet September afternoons and take a mini-road trip to Six Flags or Hershey Park with some friends; you'll feel like a little kid clutching a Disney World "fast pass" with the lack of long lines. Find concerts and films that seem interesting, and take this opportunity to go see them. Once fall term starts, you won't have as many chances to venture to faraway (or even relatively nearby) locales.
Our summer vacation is short - do what you can to make it sweet. After all, come Sept. 21, we'll resume our typical Drexel lives, following a fast-paced Drexel routine, staying primarily within our Drexel bubbles out of convenience and due to insanely busy schedules. Free time at Drexel is a rarity, and it's something that should be taken advantage of before your co-op or heavy course-load begins, consuming any ounce of spare time you previously enjoyed.
Although this somewhat pathetic excuse for a summer vacation may not seem terribly exciting, just remember: while you're basking in the late summertime sun, cooling your toes in an ocean that miraculously doesn't feel like a crowded can of sardines, your friends at every other university are sitting in classrooms, saddened by the sudden disappearance of their vacation. You're finally about to get the summer break you long for and truly deserve - enjoy every second of it. And don't worry - if you start to miss Drexel, rest assured: you'll be back in the halls of the Main Building or on Chestnut Street averting dangerous construction zones before you know it.
It might seem disappointing that your friends at other universities have already experienced their summer vacation just as yours is finally beginning, but think of it this way: you have an edge over your friends at Temple and Penn State. While they spend their summers at overly crowded and humid beaches, barely able to find room to park their belongings, you will be able to experience a relatively peaceful beach vacation. Generally, in September, the only people who will be taking summer vacations are retirees and perhaps young families. Since peak travel time is past, hotel and camping rates are rather affordable. And if we're lucky, maybe this unbearable heat will start to cool down, bringing on pleasant pre-fall weather.
So, enjoy your three weeks off, a brief respite from Drexel's rigorous pace. It might seem like a poor excuse for a summer break, but it might turn out to be better than anticipated. Take advantage of these upcoming quiet September afternoons and take a mini-road trip to Six Flags or Hershey Park with some friends; you'll feel like a little kid clutching a Disney World "fast pass" with the lack of long lines. Find concerts and films that seem interesting, and take this opportunity to go see them. Once fall term starts, you won't have as many chances to venture to faraway (or even relatively nearby) locales.
Our summer vacation is short - do what you can to make it sweet. After all, come Sept. 21, we'll resume our typical Drexel lives, following a fast-paced Drexel routine, staying primarily within our Drexel bubbles out of convenience and due to insanely busy schedules. Free time at Drexel is a rarity, and it's something that should be taken advantage of before your co-op or heavy course-load begins, consuming any ounce of spare time you previously enjoyed.
Although this somewhat pathetic excuse for a summer vacation may not seem terribly exciting, just remember: while you're basking in the late summertime sun, cooling your toes in an ocean that miraculously doesn't feel like a crowded can of sardines, your friends at every other university are sitting in classrooms, saddened by the sudden disappearance of their vacation. You're finally about to get the summer break you long for and truly deserve - enjoy every second of it. And don't worry - if you start to miss Drexel, rest assured: you'll be back in the halls of the Main Building or on Chestnut Street averting dangerous construction zones before you know it.
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