A good time to be a grad student

UCD has whittled away at our spring break for the 4 years that I've been here. We thought spring breaks of 2004 and 2005 were bad enough: They were Wednesday through Wednesday, resulting in a break 2 days shorter than if they were a single calendar week since they only included one weekend. But this year takes the cake. Spring break starts on a Friday and classes resume the following Wednesday. A five day weekend is NOT a spring break! I found an article about it in the Aggie. My favorite part is the response by a university administrator to student concerns that the break is getting shorter: "They're not actually getting shorter. It's a campus guideline that there needs to be no fewer than four days between winter and spring quarter." Um, ok. (And while this introduces the worry that next year's spring break might only be 4 days, at least it can't get any worse than that.) Maybe the official guideline hasn't changed, but the break has DEFINITELY gotten shorter! Or maybe I'm making an error somewhere. Perhaps my math genes and the 5 math classes I took at Stanford (including the supremely nasty Real Analysis) have only deluded me into thinking that 5 is less than 9. IS 5 less than 9? Hmmm... This is quite a conundrum!

Of course, the outrage is entirely academic (heehee) for me. As a grad student who's been here for some time, I'm no longer taking classes. I can take whatever spring break I want! =D Mwa-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!