Living in the midwest during the wintery months has its ups and downs. Since many people have a love-hate relationship with the winter months,

Here are a few of my reasons for hating all things winter and cold:

1. Static! Your hair, your clothes, everything shocks and sticks to you!

2. Snow.... ew.

3. Shoveling the snow is painful and obnoxious.

4. That nasty black slush accumulating on the side of the road that you have to trudge through to get to class.

6. Driving in snow is terrifying.

7. Road salt ruins all your shoes and pants.

8. The wind hurts your face.

9. If you wear glasses, good luck seeing when you walk inside!

10. Also when you walk inside, you immediately start sweating because of all of your layers.

11. Don't even think about going out with your hair still wet from your shower... Hair-sicles!

12. Puddles from your snowy boots in your house! (or dorm)

13. Hearing winter-lovers talk about how much they LOVE winter.

14. It gets dark at 4pm. Who is ready for the day to be over at 4?!

15. Dry skin. There isn't enough lotion in the world.

16. No one looks cute bundled up to their eyeballs in scarves and coats after the age of 5.

17. You can never find the right amount of layers to keep you warm.

18. Can we talk about how much winter coats cost?!

19. Getting out of your cozy warm bed in the morning is SO hard!

20. Your summer tan has faded and you know how long it took to get a good one!