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[Sivan]
I’m the news editor at The Space and here we have
[Gabrielle]
Gabrielle.
[Sivan]
And what are your pronouns?
[Gabrielle]
She, her.
[Sivan]
And your year and department?
[Gabrielle]
Second year in architecture.
[Sivan]
Awesome. So we’re wondering how you’re feeling about spring break being a week long. It’s the first year that we’ve had a week long Thanksgiving and spring break.
[Gabrielle]
Oh, I feel so good about that. I’m like, I’m finna jump up and wake up whenever I feel like and be able to come here. I think that we needed that time.
[Sivan]
Hi, what’s your name?
[Angelina]
My name’s Angelina. I’m a sophomore in the Viscom department.
I’m actually more excited, cause I remember before it felt like I just couldn’t really go anywhere.
Um, so I kind of stayed in the dorms and did like stuff for crit, but now that it’s a week long, I feel like I have time to like go home and like relax a little bit.
[Ash]
My name is Ash and my pronouns are he, they, I’m a freshman and we’ll see what department I go into.
[Sivan]
Awesome.
[Ash]
Um, well as a freshman, I didn’t ever experience it not being a week long. I’m from California, so having a whole week of just exploring Chicago and having fun and being with my friends and just having room to breathe is so nice.
[Hanna]
Uh, Hannah Glatz, she, her. Um, I’m a junior and I’m mostly in painting now.
[Sivan]
Cool.
[Hanna]
Um, I’m glad we have any spring break. A week is a little long maybe, but it’s better than no spring break.
[Eshovo]
My name is Eshovo. My pronouns are he, him. I’m a staff member in the IT department and I’m a part-time faculty member.
It’s a good thing. I don’t necessarily reap all the benefits. In a way, I do.
Um, we do get a couple of days off, but that’s what we always got. I think the logic was about, obviously, travel.
Um, you don’t have to feel like two days, I don’t know if I can go anywhere.
I don’t know. I don’t, I can’t really find a downside to it. I don’t know if it’s like an unpredictable position, but like I for one thinks it’s a good thing.
I guess on the other side of it though, sometimes we worry about this. It’s like, like, all right, keep it a whole stack.
Um, spring break is next week, right? In my class, I want to get into some things that I’m like nervous about getting into because you’ll be a week away from it the next time you see it. The plans always change.
Critiques take different lengths. Absences throw things off. Like, so the plans change.
You’re like, okay, now it’s a week. So do I introduce a new concept or do I like go into a different direction? And I’m adaptable.
So I got plans.
[Bear]
I’m Bear. I use any, I don’t really care.
I’m a sophomore and I’m in the art therapy department.
[Sivan]
Awesome.
[Bear]
I’m happier about it because I feel like last year I genuinely did nothing except sleep cause you only had like one day off?
[Sivan]
Do you have any plans for the spring break?
[Gabrielle]
Probably play in my yard, like do some garden work. Um, definitely work on projects, but mostly that.
[Angelina]
Home, it’s like an hour away, Joliet.
Um, and I think my plans are just like to hang out with family and like catch up with like friends back home.
[Sivan]
Awesome.
[Ash]
Karaoke, movie nights, and just like self-care, self-time for myself, taking like hour-long baths.
[Hanna]
I’m gonna work. Hang out, not go downtown for St. Patrick’s Day.
[Sivan]
Right.
[Hanna]
Because that gets crazy.
[Sivan]
Right.
[Eshovo]
Pretty much, like I said, like we don’t actually have both days or like all days. I don’t even know. Actually staff only has one day. Um, if I’m not mistaken.
When I started teaching, I figured I’m going to take the break that y’all get if I can take that Thursday off. So, I mean, what am I going to do?
I might play some basketball, to be honest with you.
[Bear]
Me and my best friend are going to go home for like three days. And then my other best friend’s mom is coming to visit and we’re going to go see a magic show.
[Sivan]
Also with this new schedule, we have two weeks after critique week instead of one. How do you feel about that?
[Gabrielle]
Being able to get back and forth with your professor if you have any questions. Like I feel like that’s the harder part.
But I think it’s really good for us to be able to have time to really brainstorm and get our projects together and even, you know, turn in work we haven’t turned in. Like.
[Angelina]
I think it’s good. I feel like it gives me more time to like prep stuff for critique week. So.
[Ash]
Critique week doesn’t affect me yet. Where like most of my classes this year will still continue during crit week. And then, but having an extra week before finals will really be helpful. I think.
[Hanna]
Um. Neutral, I guess. I don’t know. I guess that’s fine. I don’t know.
[Eshovo]
Well, I think that’s a good thing. Um. I mean, the semester starting on a Monday.
In a lot of ways, I think this has more benefits to the schedule than when it started like an arbitrary Tuesday or Wednesday or whatever.
[Sivan]
Yeah.
[Eshovo]
Um. So, like, I think the idea of having more time to, like, structure, um, something developing into a final with an extra week there. That way, like, that particular benchmark or, you know, goalpost is met.
You kind of focus on how you end the semester with not just one week of like, all right, y’all. Realistically, you won’t see me because you got critiques. The only downside is there’s not that dangly Monday where I could bring treats and do karaoke since we’ve finished with critique and stuff.
[Sivan]
Ugh!
[Eshovo]
Yeah, so that’s literally the only thing that I can’t do with the change in schedule. But, you know. Oh no.
[Bear]
I like that there’s a break in between to just be normal and not, like, lose my mind
[Sivan]
Freaking out?
[Bear]
Yeah. Like, actually be able to rest during crit week instead of, like, tweaking and having to do, like, seven projects in three days.
[Sivan]
Thank you so much.
