Back to School

By Kalah Johnson, Rico Allen, D’Amontae Warfield, Chanthavara Seng and Maria Umanzor

Tuesday, Oct. 27, seems like any other day at SF State, but after a four-day weekend due to budget cuts furlough days, many students didn’t want to come back to school because they said, the hassle of classes comes back as well.

“I am having a stress full morning,” said Edgar Baez, liberal studies major as he was sitting down at the food court typing his four-page essay he had to turn in at 2 p.m. Baez had trouble getting to his first class on time, which started at 9:30 a.m. because his bus line #43 left him. However, Baez acknowledged that that’s what he deals with every morning and it’s not a big deal that he had to come back from a long weekend.

But as the morning progressed, other students just sat around on campus as they waited for their next classes. Annette, a graduate student was sitting down at a bench in the Garden of Remembrance area, where she was reading a poem after she got out of her British literature class. “It was really nice to get work done over the weekend,” said Annette when referring to the long weekend break.

In the same area as Annette was Nicole who was reading a book "just for fun" called, Ishmael. The second-year and sociology major student said she didn’t want to come back to school, but she admitted she was awake during her Spanish class, her first class of the day which started at 11: 10 a.m.

Yes, it is like any other Tuesday on campus and even after a long weekend break were most students don't want to come back and deal with their class, the truth is they had to. At least some students didn't have their first class until later in the morning and that certainly helped them digest the "back to school" idea. Now let's wait for the next long weekend break!

Kalah Johnson, Rico Allen, D’Amontae Warfield and Chanthavara Seng are students at Fremont High School Media Academy in Oakland.