As we all know, Wednesdays are the day students prosper. While students have a later start, teachers are deep in meetings and professional development. Students  get a few spare minutes to sleep, maybe eat some breakfast and take things slow. However, that isn’t always the case. Students sometimes  forget that it is Wednesday and eagerly wait at the door only to realize they are an hour early.

From prior experiences, I myself have been in this situation. There were times in which I would wake up maybe around 6:50-ish thinking, “Wow I’m going to be really late,” and just rushing without taking the time to look at my phone and see what day of the week it was. This has probably already happened to tons of students throughout the years.

I asked other students at Curtis if they have gone through Wednesday mishaps. Rosa Rios, a junior, said, “it was freshman year and I was still getting used to the Wednesday schedule. I slept really late that day and forgot that it would be a Wednesday the following day. As I woke up I rushed to get ready because it was late. When I got to school I realized I rushed for nothing, and ended up being really disappointed in myself. Now to remind me it’s a Wednesday schedule I put an alarm that is only scheduled for Wednesdays.”

           Nanyelin Gesualdo, a senior, said, “one night, I changed my Wednesday alarm by accident thinking I was changing my regular weekday alarm, the next morning it went off at 5 in the morning, I overslept and I was rushing thinking It was a regular day and I was going to be late to school. Long story short, I get on the bus and look at my phone and I realized that it was Wednesday. I was an hour and a half early to school.”

On any given Wednesday there is at least 20 people waiting outside exit  4. Some students who come in early use the extra time to go out and get breakfast.  Others are have a tendency to come late. “On Wednesdays I feel like I have more time, so I go to Dunkin and usually wind up a few a minutes late for my first period class,” said Marim Badran.