Turning Every Holiday Into Canadian Thanksgiving!

Well, apparently yesterday was Veteran's Day. And I didn't realize it until somebody told me at around 2 o'clock. Why is this, you may ask, that I have such blatant disregard for our country and all of its rituals? Well, it's simple

The Cornell does not
Believe in holidays or
Patriotism


That's right. Holidays to Cornell are about as real as the Tooth Fairy or separation of church and state (sorry for the spoilers). Labor day? Veteran's Day? Professing your love for America? Unimportant. Yom Kippur? Rosh Hashana? Being Jewish? Nope, not legitimate excuses for holidays. Diwali? Nope. Canadian Thanksgiving? No, although it doesn't really count as a holiday to anyone, does it? In any of these cases (well, most of them), the holidays that are generally accepted by our country as legitimate excuses for days off are not accepted by Cornell. We do get Columbus day, but they pull a cheap shot and make it the same weekend as our "fall vacation" so they really only give us one real day for that break.

On the bright side, next year Labor Day will be given to us as a real day off. However, classes will start a day earlier to compensate.

In other news, our Winter break will still remain ridiculously long so that you do end up stranded at home weeks after all of your friends have left.