Thanksgiving Break

It is the middle of November.

The fall in the air is quickly turning into winter flurries.

You can see haggard college students,

entirely burnt out from endless midterms, research papers, and mcomm proposals,

distracting themselves during classes by checking the delta airlines website making sure their flight plans are still in order.

This can only mean one thing.

Thanksgiving break is quickly approaching. 

Thanksgiving is a funny little break from BYU students.

It allows out-of-town students to visit their distant families, and gives local students like me a break from making the 15-20 minute journey to campus every day. 

It gives the boys a chance to take out their pent up aggression during a turkey bowl and the girls a chance to hone their homemaking skills by helping their mothers with the feast.

While this vacation is a nice break, it cannot even compare to the upcoming Christmas break.

This is because while we are given a few days of classes off, there is still the lurking stress left in our minds of all the things we need to get done before the semester ends in three weeks.

We feel guilty about lounging around on the couch, when we know we should probably be studying for finals, working on final projects, or in my case, working on assembling 750 wedding invitations.

Our overwhelming to-do list in the back of our heads keeps us from being totally able to appreciate this holiday of gratitude.

Christmas break on the other hand is a completely different story.

A student has now checked off everything on that notorious to-do list and has nothing to do but decorate gingerbread houses, catch up with family, go christmas caroling, go sledding, and drink hot chocolate.

Talk about bliss.

Regardless of the fact that Thanksgiving break is significantly inferior to Christmas break, it is still an important holiday. It is the first real break we get from fall semester, and should be honored.

It is because of its importance that I suggest we get the entire week off, not just Wednesday through Friday.

The Monday and Tuesday of that week are pointless anyways, since a majority of students fly home the weekend despite the two days of classes, a large share of classes are cancelled, and the students who do show up fro scheduled classes are focused on anything but the professor's powerpoint.