This question usually gets an en- thusiastic, upbeat response. People went skiing, trained up to Boston or just enjoyed the lull on campus.
Friends are either envious or boastful, but everyone agrees that it was a time to kick back.
Well, not everyone. Ask your perpetually overworked hall-mate about the break, and he will list the fifty things he had to do each day. Four problem sets, two papers, eight loads of laundry and picking a new thesis topic by Wednesday. These are the students who never rest, except to tell you about how they can never rest. During midterms and finals they can be hard to spot, but during a long weekend they stick out like a sore thumb.