College students undergoing back-to-school quarantine in hotels and dorms fill the hours with 'Big Brother,' fine-tuning résumés and showing a deep commitment to Taylor Swift
For 14 days, Nick Cipriani sat in a room at the Holiday Inn in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. He ate salad, napped on one of the two queen-size beds, updated his résumé and began to knit a scarf. Occasionally, he’d look out the window and see families playing at the pool.
Mr. Cipriani, a Skidmore College sophomore from Cincinnati, was one of around 225 students put up by the school at hotels for required two-week quarantines before moving to campus to start the fall semester. Students received welcome packs including snacks, instructions...
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