Since Avalon Peninsula declared its state of emergency after a record-breaking storm almost a week ago, students have been worrying about what is waiting for them once Memorial University reinstates classes.
The university has given us an insight on how they will be supporting students with all the missed course time. MUN will be extending its Winter semester, pushing the end of classes from Friday, April 3rd to Thursday, April 9th. This will make up for four of the five days students have missed during the state of emergency, the fifth day will be made up on Saturday, March 28th. According to Memorial, as long as there isn’t another significant amount of snow days, the days missed during the state of emergency will not affect the winter break.
The exam period will also be moved from April 8th-18th to April 13th-21st and the official release of grades will be moved to April 25th.
Many students have already stated concerns about already purchasing plane tickets based around the original dates of the university’s diary. Memorial has already replied to these questions saying on Twitter, “we know that might be an issue from some students. Once the exam schedule has been released and you know if there’s an issue related to your departure reach out to registrar@mun.ca and they will help you out.”
There will also be no change to the convocation schedule.
To read the full alert sent out by Memorial University follow this link: http://mun.apparmor.com/notifications/CAP/?id=22254&t=19342599