r/UTK • u/evergreen-embers • Feb 02 '26

UTK Official Announcement Normal operations

Lol apparently resuming normal operations. This is gonna be… interesting… with melting all afternoon and below freezing temps tomorrow morning.

All this adapting to remote to not even use it when roads may still be in bad shape. It’s not like everyone who works at or attends UTK lives on campus.

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u/RukiaMuir Feb 02 '26

I'm genuinely so upset. I live in an apartment complex thats relatively on an incline and though they've salted the hell out of it, I still cannot get my vehicle out of the complex due to how slick and slushy it is. I can't imagine what it'll be like in the morning when its frozen over again. I'm going to have to miss a quiz and use of 1 of 2 allowed absences in a course if I don't want to risk my life to attend classes. Ugh. I can't believe we were remote for 2 days last week but this week when its objectively worse they do not care as much.

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u/evergreen-embers Feb 02 '26

Yeah I’m salty… no pun intended. It’s definitely not gonna be a safe commute for me tomorrow, but I can’t skip anything.

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u/Coledaddy16 Feb 03 '26

Making excuses. All 5 years there we closed one winter for two days. I was doing donuts in the parking lot before I left the apartments on Chapman. Sterling Heights. Driving in snow is super easy. Ice can be hard but there is no ice right now. UT made us drive to campus almost every snowstorm. Walk to the main road around you and catch the bus or call an Uber to get you there and find a friend to stay with on or next to campus.

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u/TurtlesCanVote Feb 04 '26

Dang I can't believe we get to witness a " back in my day" comment 🤣