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UCA</small></div></div></div></div></header><div class="markdown" itemprop="articleBody"><p>All students should have received an email containing their current token balance. Included in the email is a report of what assignments tokens were applied to or earned on, if any. The email was sent to each students&#x27; <code>umass.edu</code> email as reported in Moonami. If you did not receive an email, please follow up on Piazza note @290.</p></div><footer class="row docusaurus-mt-lg"><div class="col"><b>Tags:</b><ul class="tags_jXut padding--none margin-left--sm"><li class="tag_QGVx"><a class="tag_zVej tagRegular_sFm0" href="/blog/tags/logistics">logistics</a></li></ul></div></footer></article><article class="margin-bottom--xl" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"><header><h2 class="title_f1Hy" itemprop="headline"><a itemprop="url" href="/blog/2-28-snow-day">Snow Day and HW2 extended</a></h2><div class="container_mt6G margin-vert--md"><time datetime="2023-02-28T00:00:00.000Z" itemprop="datePublished">February 28, 2023</time> · <!-- -->One min read</div><div class="margin-top--md margin-bottom--sm row"><div class="col col--6 authorCol_Hf19"><div class="avatar margin-bottom--sm"><img class="avatar__photo" src="https://cics110.github.io/img/ben.jpg" alt="Ben Burns"><div class="avatar__intro" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><div class="avatar__name"><span itemprop="name">Ben Burns</span></div><small class="avatar__subtitle" itemprop="description">Head UCA</small></div></div></div></div></header><div class="markdown" itemprop="articleBody"><p>As campus is closed today (2/28), classes are canceled today for</p><ul><li>Section 02 (Eduardo)</li><li>Section 04 (Jared)</li><li>Section 05 (Allison)</li></ul><p>In observance of class being canceled, the deadline for Homework 02 has been pushed back to this Frid

19ay, March 3rd. Homework 03 will be due the following Friday, March 10th. 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These rooms are not in LGRC, they are actually in LGRT. If you take the elevator to the second floor of the Lederle Tower, take a right, and enter the last room on the left.</li><li>The form for applying tokens to late assignments is now posted under the &quot;Administration&quot; category in Moodle/Moonami. 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