Winter Break & Spring Housing Dates (2024-2025)
Tuesday, December 17
Fall 2024 exams end
Wednesday, December 18 at noon
First-year residence halls close
- upperclass housing areas remain open
- upperclass students not returning for Spring 2025 must move out
Tuesday, January 2
First-year residents who need to be on Grounds for J-Term may return
Tuesday, January 2 - Saturday, January 11
J-Term
Sunday, January 12
First-year residence halls open for Spring 2025
Monday, January 13
Spring 2025 classes begin
Before Leaving for Winter Break...
- Remove all holiday decorations.
- Make sure all water faucets are turned off to prevent water damage.
- Turn room lights off. Draw the shades/blinds and lock all windows and doors.
- Empty trash and recyclables.
- Unplug all electrical equipment EXCEPT full-size refrigerators.
- Empty and clean your refrigerator. Personal refrigerators should be unplugged with the refrigerator door left open to prevent mildew. Full-size refrigerators in apartments can be kept plugged in.
- Take home any passports, travel tickets, medications, and any valuables.
- Bring your bicycle inside. It is more secure if you put it in your room.
- Store motorcycles, mopeds, electric bikes, and electric scooters outside. As a potential fire hazard, they — or their batteries, in the case of electric vehicles — will be removed if left in student rooms.
- Submit a work order for any maintenance or facilities concerns in your room so that they may be addressed by staff during the break.
- Make sure that common spaces are cleaned and ready in the event that a new resident moves in. Students living in suites and apartments may receive a new suitemate or apartment-mate for Spring 2025.
- Residents living in a double room with a vacancy should be similarly prepared for a new roommate to move in. Personal possessions should be limited to one side of the room, with the second closet/wardrobe, dresser, and desk clear and ready to be used by a new resident.