Vacations call for a makeover?

Another vacation (scratch that 2 days) has come and gone and with it has come the overwhelming but all too familiar feeling that days off from Princeton are fleeting. Maybe this has something also to do with the fact that vacations here are inherently bizarre and in my opinion need to be altered. Yes, we get a longer summer but most of our friends at home have already left by the time August rolls around. Our winter break is all too short and filled with stress over approaching finals. And then suddenly is that random week of intersession, which is nice, but pretty inconvenient for those who live a distance away. Moving finals to before winter vacation would solve most of these problems, but maybe I’m just another Princeton student who should stop complaining about nothing.