Chapter 2655
April 5th.
The seventh week of the semester, Monday.
Qingming Festival.
By tradition, Qingming Festival came with a day off.
Last year's Qingming Festival had fallen on a Saturday, which was already a day off. After deliberation, the members of the Professor Joint Conference had ultimately decided not to grant an additional day off, instead combining the Qingming holiday with Saturday.
So this year's Qingming Festival was, in fact, Zheng Qing's first Qingming holiday at First University.
But for a second-year student set to graduate early like him, there was no need to worry about whether Qingming Festival meant an extra day off. He was not an Atlas student and did not need to take part in the grand Luotian ritual of the Yellow Robes; nor did he have any relatives in the Wizarding World, so he had no need to offer prayers and blessings that day.
The assignments for twenty-seven courses lay piled on his desk. Even with an extra day off, there was no way he could write one fewer assignment—if anything, having one less class would greatly reduce his study efficiency, which would be even worse.
Of course, this extra day off on Qingming Festival remained very tempting to students other than soon-to-graduate students like Zheng Qing.
First-years who had been enrolled for just over half a year had yet to exhaust the novelty of university life, and were still keen on group activities like haunted houses and scare mazes.
Second- and third-year students, who had been enrolled for one or two years, had neither graduation pressure ahead of them nor graduation theses or pre-graduation practical assignments to fret over; nor were they burdened by miscellaneous affairs, since the tedious work of the Student Union and clubs could all be left to the first-year juniors.