Four days stuck indoors was too many for Ashleigh Banda, senior nursing major from Dallas.

“The first two days, I celebrated. The night of the second day, I was ready for it to be over,” Banda said. “You couldn’t leave. You couldn’t even go out to eat with your friends.”

Professors and students alike have had to grapple with the cost of four free days. Dr. Brad Crisp, assistant professor of information systems, said this was the longest period of snow days he has experienced – and he taught for five years at Indiana University.

“There was some good family time and some stir-crazy time,” Crisp said. “Obviously, it was a big disruption to the teaching schedule.”

Crisp chose to move a test review outside of class time and condense some of his material. He said he worries students will not have the time to adequately reflect on the material that has been compressed.

“We had to move at a pace that is not my preference,” Crisp said. “We’ll still make sure they get all the concepts they need to know.”

David Kneip, instructor of Bible, missions and ministry, said missing almost a whole week of classes so early in the semester broke his classes’ routines before they had time to be established.

“It feels like we have to start over again,” Kneip said.

Kneip has had to compress some essential material, especially for his freshmen classes, he said.

Kristin Pitney, freshman Bible major from Abilene, said she was a little overwhelmed by the work that piled up over the break.

Banda said some of her professors assigned online work and scheduled additional lectures outside of class time in addition to postponing projects and tests.

“My memory is refreshed why we liked breaks,” Banda said. “After a few days of classes, I’m ready for another break.”

Pascal Lacoss, sophomore management major from Surbiton, United Kingdom, said he hoped for another snow day as well. He had wanted Thursday classes to be canceled, so one of his tests could be pushed back again.

“No such luck,” Lacoss said.