At Marquette missing the day before or after the holiday counted as a triple absence. Which was a big deal because after a certain number of absences the professor could deregister you from the class.

And I am sorry- the theatre students leave Sunday night because we are rehearsing! But the other people leave Friday!

Where did you go freshman year, Jesse?

This day was always infamous for getting home from NYC if you lived anywhere in the tri-state area. No matter how early you left the city, every NJ Transit and Amtrak train was crushed with people. A couple years I rode NJ Transit home in between cars, and it was packed there, too.

Same school the whole time (Penn), I just realized that taking the train was silly.

I took the train all the time between Boston and Wilmington when I was at BU. Thanksgiving was the worst! But I didn't have a car and it was way cheaper than flying at the time. Many times I wouldn't have a seat until New York.

There are so many schools in Philly! And even out here in the suburbs.

I was on the southbound train with some of you -- I'd like to think that I waved merrily at the northbound as it passed, but in reality, I was trying to keep my balance in the middle of an aisle (or possibly even in the space between cars --how on earth was THAT safe?!) Providence - White Plains for the first couple of years, PVD - PHL at the end. Good times, in a way that can only be "good" in retrospect or with the loose joints of a sleep-deprived 20-year-old.

I was a no-social-life-having heterosexual woman attending a women's college, so I was mostly excited about all the boys on the trains. I usually didn't get a seat until NYC.

Oh yeah, never a seat until NYC. The Kids Today don't know how good they have it, with the lack of overselling trains!

This just caused me to look at the Mega bus- I could take the bus to NY, get there at 1, buy fabric, and come back at 5 for very little money. Of course it is 14 hours of travel time to spend 2 hours shopping!