10 Winter Struggles Of Oakland Students, As Told By "The Simpsons"
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10 Winter Struggles Of Oakland Students, As Told By "The Simpsons"

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Kaitlin Sloan
Feb 13, 2017
Oakland University
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10 Winter Struggles Of Oakland Students, As Told By "The Simpsons"
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Oakland University has many perks...as well as, many downfalls. As all universities do.

Eighty percent of Oakland students are commuters. The other 20% are students who reside on campus, but we all face similar problems during the winter semester.

Besides the fact that we live in Michigan and we expect cold weather during the winter, lots of other winter occurrences make OU a special school to attend in the winter.

The Simpsons are an animated family struggling to survive the winter season. They are the perfect family to describe OU's winter probs.

Eat my shorts, winter!

1. You're willing to be late to class in order to get a closer parking spot

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2. Moving your car from parking lot to parking lot throughout the day

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3. We appreciated the workout in nicer weather, but this hilly campus is killin' us now

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4. When it's slushy and the yellow lines are hard to see, so the lot is a mess

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5. You can't wear your moccasins because they'll be destroyed after walking to class and your feet will freeze

6. Hilly campus = slip risk maximized

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7. When the walk from the OC to Vandenberg becomes a Narnia movie

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8. When you're in a class that doesn't have windows, so you have no idea what kind of weather happened within that 1 hour and 47 minutes


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9. Wishing you were an actually grizzly bear because hibernation

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10. You think Spring Break means warm weather, yet our spring break is in February.

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