Thanksgiving break is almost here, and as turkey day approaches, the campus population is thinning out.

The break officially begins tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. This is the last year classes will be scheduled for the day before Thanksgiving.

The new schedule, which goes into effect next year, will extend Thanksgiving break to include the Wednesday before the holiday.

"I definitely agree that we need another travel day," Lindsay McMinn (freshman-biology) said. "If you live in the dorms, you have to be out by 5 p.m. If you have class until 2:30, it's very pressing for parents to come get you, especially if they have to work, and it makes celebrating the day before impossible."

Students say the extra day will make it easier to get home next year.

"Some professors cancel classes and some don't, so my friends are leaving early because they don't have anything to do here," Jen Zimmerman (freshman-environmental resource management) said. "A travel day will be good because it will make it more fair, and it will be easier to arrange for rides. Many people have to travel long distances to go home."

Other students say traveling home isn't too difficult, so the longer break probably won't really affect them.

"It'd be kind of nice to not have classes on Wednesday, but it doesn't really affect me because I live about two hours away," Tina King (senior-sociology) said.

Rachel Miller (junior-journalism) said the extra day won't make a difference to her.

"... I live about three hours away, and I'm getting a ride, so I'd get home even without the extra day," she said. "It's not like we're doing any work here, since classes were canceled."