NCAA regionals in Springfield

[dbilmes]

I thought I'd start a separate thread for this. Since a lot of us will be looking to buy tickets, hopefully people will share information as it becomes available.
If I recall correctly from past years, the official tickets being sold by Cornell might be for both the Thursday and Saturday games. Hopefully, it won't be too difficult to just buy tickets for the Thursday games.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I bought a ticket to just Thursday on the official site.  

It's in the upper deck, but I expect that I'll be able to sit downstairs, at least during our game.

[Dunc]

Unfortunately for us students a lot of people may have Prelims the Thursday before spring break - I imagine some will try to come on Saturday tho if we advance

[BearLover]

Unfortunately for us students a lot of people may have Prelims the Thursday before spring break - I imagine some will try to come on Saturday tho if we advance

Hopefully the hockey players don't.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Unfortunately for us students a lot of people may have Prelims the Thursday before spring break - I imagine some will try to come on Saturday tho if we advance

That sucks.

[dbilmes]

I just bought tickets in Section 2 in the upper level. They're not great seats, but hopefully after the first game most of the UMass fans will leave, especially if their team loses, and we'll be able to move down to better seats.
The arena website says the parking garage is closed due to construction, so I'm sure parking is going to be fun.

[Trotsky]

Get in the building and then move around.

[BearLover]

Unfortunately for us students a lot of people may have Prelims the Thursday before spring break - I imagine some will try to come on Saturday tho if we advance

Hopefully the hockey players don't.

Most of them do and they have to leave 2 days ahead so they may miss several

So how's that gonna work?

[upprdeck]

most sports they send someone to admin the tests if thats required

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell block tickets here:  https://vivenu.com/event/2024-ncaa-mens-ice-hockey-regionals-vupi5r

[Dunc]

Unfortunately for us students a lot of people may have Prelims the Thursday before spring break - I imagine some will try to come on Saturday tho if we advance

Hopefully the hockey players don't.

Most of them do and they have to leave 2 days ahead so they may miss several

So how's that gonna work?

There are "prelim conflict" forms you can fill out to take a prelim on a make up day for *most* courses - a student fan wanting to skip the exam to go to Springfield and watch would not qualify as a proper "conflict", but I'm pretty positive actually competing in the NCAA hockey tournament would

[pjd8]

Unfortunately for us students a lot of people may have Prelims the Thursday before spring break - I imagine some will try to come on Saturday tho if we advance

Hopefully the hockey players don't.

Most of them do and they have to leave 2 days ahead so they may miss several

So how's that gonna work?

There are "prelim conflict" forms you can fill out to take a prelim on a make up day for *most* courses - a student fan wanting to skip the exam to go to Springfield and watch would not qualify as a proper "conflict", but I'm pretty positive actually competing in the NCAA hockey tournament would

Hopefully the band will qualify as well. I got excused from a lot of Friday afternoon chem labs that way.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I missed the first two periods of the famous "Providence Game" because I had a Chem 208 prelim.  A bunch of us asked the prof to move it, but he refused.

The TA's were also pissed they had to be there.

FTR, I aced the exam.

[RichH]

I missed the first two periods of the famous "Providence Game" because I had a Chem 208 prelim.  A bunch of us asked the prof to move it, but he refused.

The TA's were also pissed they had to be there.

FTR, I aced the exam.

I was able to reschedule my Chem211 prelim when I had a chance to perform in the NYC Thanksgiving Day Parade and needed to go early for rehearsals.

Circumstances usually allow for alternate arrangements for all sorts of events.

One year, the director of the CU Wind Ensemble/Concert Bands rescheduled a spring concert for hockey playoffs and then the team didn't make it and that never happened again.

[jkahn]

Unfortunately for us students a lot of people may have Prelims the Thursday before spring break - I imagine some will try to come on Saturday tho if we advance

Time to repost this 55 year-old solution.  I do disown any responsibility if it doesn't work:
The Saturday night before the '69 ECAC's was the last regular season game of the year. I get to the game early as always, and I'm informed by a friend sitting two rows in front of me that the professor that day (it was a Tues.-Thurs.-Sat. class) had announced a prelim for ECAC Saturday (I hadn't gone to class that day). I go see the professor during the week and explain that I need to take a make-up because I'm going to Boston for the ECAC hockey tournament. He says that's not a good reason and I try my best to explain my passion and commitment to Cornell hockey. He explains that it's not a good enough reason and I say something like "I'm sorry you feel that way" and start to walk out. He says, "You've got to decide what's more important" and I turn and say "I have, I'm going to Boston." He says, in a tone of exasperation, "All right, I'll give you a make-up."
Sometimes, telling the truth works. Of course, I was crazy enough that I would have gone to Boston and risked flunking the course. Also, I knew that the manager of the hockey team was in my class and would somehow wind up getting a make-up (it turned out that Ned called on his behalf). When I got to the make-up, which was the Thursday after the ECACs, there were four of us (don't know the excuses of the other two-don't think they were hockey related). The make-up was very interesting, as he gave an oral exam, starting with one of us doing proofs on the blackboard, then having the second continue, back to the first who was then dismissed, then he called up the third (me), back to the second, etc. - he could really see how we could think, and when someone got stuck he could then ask a prompting question to see how quickly you picked it up.

Also, Dunc, perhaps you can offer to take the test early.
And for any of you who might have been math majors, it was Professor Michael Morley.