“Tuesday, October 11th : All Monday classes will meet.” All of Fairfield was sent this message last week because of Columbus Day weekend, and maybe no one really thought twice about it, but does this really make any sense?
Freshman, this may come as news to you, but Fairfield is the epitome of a college “bubble”. As soon as you pass through the little public safety booth at the entrance of the school, forget about the outside world, it means nothing. Although there were no classes on Monday because of the holiday, why did our Monday classes shift to Tuesday? Is Tuesday less important than Monday? And if Monday is shifted to Tuesday, what does that make Wednesday? This makes one angry calendar designer, and one messy planner.
It occurred to me that this didn’t seem logical once I tried to explain it to my friends that don’t go to Fairfield. “Wait, what? So when do you get Tuesday back? Do you have class on Saturday to make up for it?” Stupid questions due to poor planning of class schedules.
The world doesn’t stop spinning on the outside of the gates of Fairfield. It’s still Tuesday in their eyes. In the morning when I looked at my phone, it said “Tuesday, October 11th”. Maybe Fairfield faculty thinks we’re so elite that we don’t need to recognize ourselves with the rest of the world. ‘There is no world besides Fairfield, we can change the calendars if we want to’ is probably a similar thought to what the people who made this change were thinking. Did they think a bunch of college students wouldn’t notice? We’re not that self-absorbed.
Not to mention Monday has the reputation of being the WORST day of the week. Does anyone actually enjoy Mondays? No one I know does. We fear Monday like the Bubonic Plague. It’s the day when homework piles up right in front of your eyes, and you just want to sit in the corner of your dorm room and cry a little. I know we were all so happy when we saw that we didn’t have classes on Columbus Day since it was a Monday. But no, we couldn’t just jump into a school week with Tuesday. That’d be too nice, too simple for Fairfield. We’re much more complicated than that.
Calendars read “Tuesday, October 11th”, but where did it go? Did anyone try and watch their Monday night shows on Tuesday, thinking it was Monday? You bet I tried. Two and a Half Men was nowhere to be found on my television. Sucks because I look forward to it every week. Thanks Fairfield.
So if Fairfield has the power and authority to make Tuesdays into Mondays, can we change Mondays into Fridays if we feel the need to? Can I not write my six to eight page paper because I felt like screwing with the academic calendar? I guess not, because if we could, iPhone Guy and myself would have nothing to complain about, and how boring would that be?
-Sent from my BlackBerry
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