Fall Break and Jon & Kate Plus 8

It is the middle of October and most college students have adjusted back or are getting settled into the life of a college student. Every student misses the random days that are scheduled off by their school system and every national holiday that you use to get out of school. In college there are no days that are scheduled off besides major holiday breaks, fall break, and at Virginia Tech, University Remembrance for the April 16 shootings.
Fall break is the one day a year that students get off to have a long weekend, and simply to take a break from school work. Virginia Tech’s fall break is only one day long and this year it is October 9, 2009. There is nothing wrong with fall break being only one day long because it means that Thanksgiving break is longer, compared to other schools that only get Wednesday through Friday off. It is nice to have an entire week off that week because when we come back from break we only have about a week and a half left in the semester.
Fall Break is suppose to be a time when we can go home for a long weekend and not have to worry about anything. This year at Virginia Tech the university scheduled a home football game the weekend of fall break, which has made every single student consider if they want to go home or stay at school and go to the game. Many people I know decided to go home this weekend and opted to stay next weekend for the game against Boston College. It may not seem like a big deal to most people but it is to freshmen who have been here for six weeks and this is their first opportunity to go home.
I do not know who scheduled this, but it is dumb to have a home football game the same weekend that fall break is. Shouldn’t students be allowed to have the choice to go home for a long weekend and not have to decide between going home and staying for the game? I think that as students we should not have to decide and the university should better to accommodate both events but on different weekends. Or the university could have at least scheduled it for a game that was away, for example this weekend when Virginia Tech was playing at Duke.
It is not fair to make students pick what they want to do, even if it is only an extra day in the weekend, but an extra day off goes a long way. I know that students have to make this decision every weekend when there is a home game, but during the regular home games, we do not have every single Friday off. Then again there is the whole process of trying to get a ticket out of the student lottery system. Most freshmen that I know of still have not won a ticket out of the lottery and there are only a few more home games.
I do not blame anyone for making fall break and a home football game on the same weekend, because I do not know why they scheduled it like this, but for all we know there could have been several different reasons. We do not know why it is setup the way it is, but all we can do is go with the flow of things and stay here for the game or go home for fall break.

Jon & Kate Plus 8



Everybody knows about the Gosselin family. If you do not know them, then I do not know where you have been. This use to be a family of eight children and two parents, which is now a family with eight children and parents who are getting divorced and going through a hard time right now.
If you looked at almost every tabloid or major news website and googled there names, you would find countless of articles about their family. They are a special family because they have two sets of multiples. They have a set of twin girls who are nine and a set of sextuplets- three girls, and three boys- who are five years old.
This is a rare occurrence having so many children at one time, so TLC gave them a reality show called Jon and Kate plus 8. There show has been very successful during the time it has been on TV allowing the children to have experiences that other children will never get.
The show drew millions of viewers each week until the ratings started to drop just this past fall. This past year for the family has been hard and it is very complicated as to where the show is now and how it is not very popular anymore.
The show began to go downhill with speculation of Jon and Kate’s marriage beginning to fall apart. It wasn’t soon after that, Jon was accused of having an affair and then apparently many people became involved in the whole situation causing Jon and Kate to eventually file for divorce.
This is a sad situation the children are in. They each have 7 other siblings and only one mom and dad, and if they didn’t spend enough time with each parent when they were together, they are going to have even less time with one parent because they will not be living with them full time. I use to think I knew what was best for the children and what they should do about the show, but shouldn’t the parents make the correct decision for their children about whether or not they should cancel the show? I think they should and as of what I just read in one tabloid online, they show has halted shooting immediately pending on what the parents decide.
Jon and Kate have not made this easy. If you look online everyday there is something new that comes out about how one or the other is treating each other with no respect and how they can’t get along. Earlier I read that Jon had emptied their joint bank account and only left 1,000 dollars for Kate, The kids have a separate account they cannot touch.
This is a sad situation and I do not know what is the best for the kids, but Jon and Kate need to hurry up and find a solution so there children will not be all over the internet about how their parents are bad and need to set good examples for them.