Six things students miss about Skidmore over winter break
Winter break is a great opportunity to rest and re-charge before the spring semester, but Skidmore students have a lot to miss when they leave campus!
1. 这里的食物
有 an obvious appeal to home food, especially if your parents or siblings are masters in the kitchen, but there’s truly nothing like the food in the 食堂. And at school, you don’t need to listen to your mom bickering with your sister about whether or not the homemade salsa has enough jalapeno—the award-winning Skidmore chefs aren’t ones to bicker, and already know the perfect pepper-to-salsa ratio.
2. 自由
有 a lot to love about being home: spending time with family and friends, sleeping in your childhood bedroom and pondering how much you’ve changed, and getting out of bed at whatever time you see fit. Still, if you end up spending break back at your parents’ house, you might feel that prepubescent angst of yesteryear creep back into 你的思想. Your family just doesn’t understand you, your parents’ rules are cruel, even totalitarian, and everyone seems to have an insatiable need to voice their unique 政治观点. The comfortable isolation of your residence hall starts to have 新发现的吸引力.
3. 获得惊人的资源
I really can’t harp on this one enough, because I’m constantly reminded of the dearth 家里的创意资源. Not to diss my hometown library, but it just doesn’t 有什么? 露西·斯克里布纳图书馆 has—stuff like computers fully-loaded with programs like Photoshop and Illustrator (perfect for digitally manipulating pictures of your friends to be later uploaded to social media) and projectors that you can rent out to watch movies from a recently-constructed 毯子堡.
4. 健身房
It’s hard to ring in the new year with resolutions to attain the demigod-status body, which you’ve been longing for since the seventh grade, without access to a gym—let 一个人打扮得像 Skidmore’s Williamson Sports Center. The recently-renovated facility has a myriad of treadmills, ellipticals, and stationary bikes to help burn away any evidence of the caloric excess of the holidays. 有 also the weight room, where you can sweat away feelings of inadequacy and get ripped in the process, and the pool, where you can do laps, practice your dive, and/or do some log-rolling, which, yes, is a real thing that people do.
5. 萨拉托加的天气
This one doesn’t so much apply to me because I live a tight two-hours from campus, but for the students that come from the farther regions of the country or abroad, winter in Saratoga can be a treat. Yeah, it’s cold, but it also makes for some beautiful landscapes and some spirited and snowy fun with friends. Every year there’s some snow-sculpture on the quad that reminds Skidmore students that creative thought not only matters, but also manifests in interesting and sometimes really strange ways.
6. 朋友
Without a doubt, the people you befriend during your time at Skidmore represent the hardest thing to leave at the end of fall semester, and the best thing to come back 在春天开始的时候. Whether it’s the people in the room down the hall, your friends from class, or even the familiar face of an RA, it’s always nice to know that by the time break ends, there’s someone to come back to. 你得到的感觉 when coming back to campus is hard to articulate; it’s more than just having a fresh start, it’s also knowing that you have the next three months to spend—however you choose—with the people that make you happy.
布莱恩·艾伦，17岁 is the 2016 - 2017 student blogger in the office of Communications 和市场营销. A double major in 英语 and 西班牙语 with a minor in meida and film studies, he has provided a unique student insight to life at Skidmore.