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Depending on your religion, holidays may fall right in the middle of scheduled classes. Once remembering a time when the entire family was together on Rosh Hashanah, Good Friday, or other holy days, it may be hard to imagine your daughter at school during a big family celebration. Many freshmen don’t have the opportunity to travel home merely to celebrate a holiday because most don’t have cars or they are a plane ride away. In these cases, services and gatherings are often held at universities to accommodate those students.
Conversely, if it is easy for your daughter to find a way home from school for a holiday, there is no better time for her to take a breather for a few days. Since freshman year I have always come home for the holidays in late September, which provides a much needed break in between the start of school and our first official break in mid-October.
When I go home for the holidays, I can relax with my family and go back to school feeling refreshed. A haircut, manicure/pedicure, and mini shopping spree is always in order over a holiday, as well as good dinners with the family and a night or two to catch up on school work or to simply unwind.
Most professors are very understanding of absences due to a holiday, so you need not worry about your daughter missing an important class. But if a class is solely lecture-based and cannot be missed, you must weigh your priorities. Although many may disagree, and rightfully so, I feel that religion can be celebrated anywhere, and if your schoolwork cannot be put on hold, then school must come first. Therefore, if the time is right and the circumstances are allowing, going home for the holidays is fantastic; otherwise, stay in school and don’t miss that lecture! |
