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College students weigh the risk of returning home for Thanksgiving

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Instead of visiting her parents a younger sibling back home, Mayhair said she will be spending the holiday with her grandparents who live in Grand Forks. The college senior said she recently received a negative test result and has been limiting even her local travels. Mayhair said her experience has felt "isolating at times," but being a senior, she said it has been "little easier for me to be more independent." Mayhair said she's more concerned about first-year students who have had to adjust to starting college in a pandemic. "It could be very stressful already being away from home, and then right now too is very stressful," she said referring to general uncertainty for the future.

Ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, her parents picked her up from campus in Gainesville, Florida and together they drove home, she said. She said she plans to return to campus at the end of this week. A spokesperson for The University of Florida told Business Insider in a statement that the university is recommending students to get tested and self-quarantine for 14 days before going home.

 

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