Happy Dan Goldin Day!
On this day four years ago, the Trustees of Boston University granted the student body a holiday for the inauguration of the new president. Unfortunately for the university, they actually fired Mr. Dan Goldin before installing him, leaving the almost-president with a pretty 1.8 million dollar severance check and the students with a day of no classes for no reason.
This day, November 17th, is now celebrated by BU alumni across the nation as a day to skip out of work, celebrate, and do nothing. We thank Mr. Goldin for his willingness to be our president, the Board of Trustees for their vote of no confidence in him, and whoever decided that keeping the holiday was the best way to prevent a riot among students already planning a day of drinking.
Today also begins my Thanksgiving break. Never in the history of my academic career have all of my teachers unanimously cancelled all classes on the days leading up to Thanksgiving break. As I have no classes on Fridays anyway, if I had wanted to/had the money to, I could be on a ten day vacation to anywhere right now.
As it is, I’m going to celebrate all of these days off by going to a winery, hiking, cooking, eating, reading, watching movies, and generally being lazy. It’s been a long semester, and I deserve a break before the finals crunch begins.
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