by Tony Moore; video by Joe O'Neill
Everyone loves taking finals: those long hours of exams, the stress, sleepless nights stacked up like textbooks … wait, what?
OK, no one loves finals week. But really, when students dive into this annual challenge, they’re seeing the light at the end of the tunnel: Summer vacation is here, and everyone is that much closer to graduation. But for students who want a taste of home as they close in on the real thing, Dickinson offers regional study breaks—little lights shining halfway down the finals-week tunnel.
Regional study breaks are just that: finals-week study breaks that provide respites themed for various regions of the U.S. They kicked off last year with a single Midwest-themed break, which treated about 30 Midwesterners to Chicago deep-dish pizza and Wisconsin cheese curds.
Next fall, the campus will embrace more regional diversity with the addition of breaks representing the South, Ohio and the Maine/New Hampshire/Vermont region.
Published May 6, 2015