{"id":1538,"date":"2015-01-28T19:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2015-01-28T19:01:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T23:01:05","slug":"snow-day-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2015\/01\/28\/snow-day-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Day Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that as you read this you are safe and warm! \u00a0We now have a LOT of snow in New England, after what has seemed like months of a non-white winter. \u00a0Worcester got hit with a record-breaking 33.5 inches, and apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.com\/storms\/winter\/news\/more-snow-northeast-midwest-after-juno\">more<\/a>\u00a0snow is on the way!<\/p>\n<p>Since Holy Cross&#8217; campus shut down on Tuesday, I read applications from home (and shoveled out my car as a reading break!). \u00a0As I worked through my virtual pile of files, I could not help but think about how students might be enjoying their day off&#8211;the main dining hall, campus center, libraries, and rec center all closed by 7pm on Monday and reopened on Wednesday. \u00a0With that in mind, what did students do on Tuesday? \u00a0I asked some of our social media interns to send me a picture and tell me how they spent their snow day on Mt. St. James (I believe it was the first in about 7 years!). \u00a0Here are their responses:<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Correa, &#8217;17:\u00a0I spent the day catching up on homework and binge watching Netflix with my roommate!<\/p>\n<p>Maddy Smith, &#8217;17:\u00a0Played in the snow for a little until I was told to go inside! Then watched a movie and had cocoa!<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie Horl, &#8217;17: Upon waking up Wednesday morning, many &#8216;Saders could not wait to venture outside and see how much snow Mt. St. James had received. When the &#8220;shelter in place&#8221; was lifted&#8230;.student put on their Bean boots and puffy winter coats to go&#8230;conquer the many hills around campus<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/unnamed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1539\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/unnamed-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"200\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/unnamed-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/unnamed-577x1024.jpg 577w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/unnamed.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/unnamed-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1541\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/unnamed-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed 2\" width=\"264\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/unnamed-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/unnamed-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/unnamed-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/unnamed-2.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love that the students stayed safe but still enjoyed the winter wonderland that the campus must have become!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that as you read this you are safe and warm! \u00a0We now have a LOT of snow in New England, after what has seemed like months of a non-white winter. \u00a0Worcester got hit with a record-breaking 33.5 inches, and apparently more\u00a0snow is on the way! Since Holy Cross&#8217; campus shut down on Tuesday, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2015\/01\/28\/snow-day-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snow Day Fun!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,27],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions-staff","category-sarah-gale","tag-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}