Division of Student Affairs<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\nMya Sebastian, a sophomore finance major, is staying on campus this weekend but does not believe it should be considered a break.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy parents aren\u2019t coming down this weekend, but my freshman year, they did, and it was very hectic,\u201d Sebastian said. \u201cI also feel like the fall break can\u2019t even be considered a fall break \u2014 I already have Friday classes off, so it\u2019s not really worth my time going anywhere.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bridget Edwards, a first-year history major, said this year\u2019s fall break is \u201ccounterproductive\u201d as students want to go home, but parents want to visit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cStudents want to go home for their fall break, but whenever it\u2019s parents weekend, then parents obviously want to come up and visit, so they don\u2019t really get a good opportunity to go home,\u201d Edwards said. \u201cMy sister\u2019s coming up, [but] otherwise, I probably would have gone home.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jessa Rosenberg, a first-year applied developmental psychology major, said her parents are coming for Family Weekend but wishes she could have gone home.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m bummed because it means I don\u2019t get to go home, and also [fall break is] one day,\u201d Rosenberg said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rosenberg said her parents are pleased with the decision, as they can save money.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad I get to see my parents, [and] my parents are pretty happy about it because it means that they don\u2019t have to both pay for hotels and pay to get me home,\u201d Rosenberg said.<\/p>\n
Avidi Mohanti, a first-year neuroscience major, wishes there were two separate weekends because out-of-state students only get so many opportunities to go home.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI would rather have a chance to go back home rather than [my parents] come here, because, especially being out of state, you don\u2019t get many chances to do it,\u201d Mohanti said. \u201cHaving a designated long weekend gives you a chance to go back home, [but] during parents weekend, they want to come here and do the fun things here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carlyle Welling, a first-year nursing major, said she wanted to go home, but her parents are coming to her instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really mad that fall break is the same weekend as parents weekend, because I want to go home for fall break, but now my parents have to come here, and it\u2019d be great if they were on two separate weekends,\u201d Welling said. \u201cNow it feels like I\u2019m not even getting a break because I\u2019m going to have to tour them around the City and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Welling explained that her parents are also upset because they wanted her to go home.<\/p>\n
\u201c[My parents] wanted to visit the school, and they didn\u2019t want to do it on a different weekend because all the activities for parents weekend are in one weekend,\u201d Welling said. \u201cAnd I can\u2019t go home any other weekend because I have class on Friday and I\u2019m from out of state, so it\u2019s really inconvenient for me to go home.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saanvi Sharma, a first-year molecular biology major, is going home for fall break but said she is disappointed as she\u2019s missing out on Family Weekend activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m upset about it because I was really excited to watch the game and have my parents come here and visit, but because it\u2019s fall break, I wanted to go home and be able to enjoy my time at home,\u201d Sharma said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lynette Velez, a sophomore natural sciences major, said she\u2019s not affected by the dual weekend but wishes she could have attended parents\u2019 weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t really affect me because I\u2019m still going home,\u201d Velez said. \u201cBut I guess I would have liked to be able to go [to the game] on parents weekend and have my parents come.\u201d<\/p>\n
Faizan Saghir, an undeclared first-year student, said he does not feel like he\u2019s missing out on Family Weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t really affect me that much \u2014 I\u2019m going home, and I\u2019m seeing my parents anyways,\u201d Saghir said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For some Pitt students, fall break might typically mean heading home, but this year\u2019s overlap with Family Weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-303170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}