From brief outages and a few fallen branches to week-long class cancellations, students across the East Coast bring mixed reports on Hurricane Sandy's effects on their local campuses. Some campuses, such as Brooklyn College, reported that a student had died due to falling debris during the storm. Here are their reports:

New York City:

Barnard College: Both Barnard and Columbia cancelled classes on Monday and Tuesday, and reopened on Wednesday. Lots of teachers live in Brooklyn or New Jersey, though, so almost everyone I know had at least one class cancelled. – Mariana Robertson, sophomore, Barnard College

Brooklyn College: We lost a brooklyn college student due to the hurricane […]I didn't know a huge natural disaster can actually affect me this wayor my school community this way. Hopefully we'll all grow even closer. The school is pretty close to begin with, like a family, but with such a terrible tragedy like this impacting our school community, I know it'll only make us grow stronger and closer. –Lauren Marino, freshman, Brooklyn College

Columbia University: Really it was just nice to have a couple days off from school to hang with friends or go volunteer in places that were really damaged by sandy on Tuesday or today. –Michael Josephs, sophomore, Columbia University

Fashion Institute of Technology:  I think it was a good idea to close the school for the rest of the week. our school is made up of a lot of commuters and even though public transportation is picking up tomorrow it only is in bits and pieces so im glad FIT decided to close and start fresh monday morning.- Amira Okelly, sophomore, FIT

East coast colleges:

Brandeis University: A few fallen trees damage to the school was minimal. Off campus houses lost power, and three of the dorms on campus did too. [..]Pizza was also delivered to all the dorms and the campus restaurant for free to all students, to make sure we all stayed fed, safe, and dry during the storm. –Paige Lurie, sophomore, Brandeis University

Brown University: A friend from NY is coming up tomorrow to get out of the city […]Sandbags were put out around certain dorms to help prevent flooding. If anything they were too cautious in cancelling classes Tuesday. – Jonathon Schear, sophomore, Brown University

Georgetown University: Some of my friends in older dorms had leaks and wet carpets. Other than that just some down trees and branches, but nothing serious. There were no real power outages here. –Leo Doran, sophomore, Georgetown University

Rutgers University: As of late on Tuesday, it was finally announced that the damage was so severe that classes are cancelled for the remainder of the week. We're all going to be quite behind on our work, but until the trees get removed and the transformers are restored, being productive on campus is nearly impossible, especially because our school is so large.-Jessica Zarrillo, junior, Rutgers University

Syracuse University: Syracuse cancelled classes after 1:30 on Monday until Wednesday. Luckily the storm full on passed us. –Ilyse Shapiro, junior, Syracuse University

Tufts University: When the school announced classes weren't canceled on Tuesday, over a thousand students signed a petition to reverse the decision. Although it didn't work, it was a pretty adventurous idea.- Stephanie Haven, sophomore, Tufts University

University of Akron: Obama was supposed to come to the school today, but was held up by the weather.- Tessa Gaffney, sophomore, University of Akron

University of Maryland: Many students at the University stocked up on food and water from local convenience stores in anticipation of Sandy. The University didn't have much damage but classes were canceled Monday and Tuesday […]The only problem that Sandy caused at the University of Maryland was the fact that all the students who stayed in the dorms got a bad case of cabin fever.-Sam Friedman, freshman, University of Maryland

Know how your friends at other campuses that were hit by Hurricane Sandy are doing? Let us know in the comments below.

Additional reporting by WSN staff. Compiled by Hanqing Chen. Email them at [email protected].