Let me be honest here, one of the many reasons I love UCLA is the LA weather. I know it may sound a little bit snobby, but I'm so glad I'm on the west coast and not the east. The east coast is ridden with snow and blizzards. Everyone over there? I hope you are hanging on.

The LA weather was advertised to be nice, breezy spring climate all year round. The windy rain that's outside my window is not what I was promised. I'm warm and toasty under my blanket but I had to walk in puddles to get the iced coffee I am sipping right now. I did not sign up for this at all. Nope. Nada. No.

Besides taking a hit on our ability to spend time outside, both in extreme and everyday cases, weather can have a real impact on our health and well-being. If you’re in a good mood, chances are, bad weather won’t bring you down too much. But if you’re feeling crummy already, a cold, dreary day could easily make your mood go from bad to worse.

And having to walk to a hall to take your final exams in this weather was not an experience I want to repeat. I know it may sound like I'm complaining too much about a bit of rain, but this weather is not what I want my college experience to be.

In a 2008 study published in the journal Emotion, researchers evaluated the personalities and moods of more than 1,200 adult men and women through daily questionnaires that were later cross-referenced with the local weather. They found that climate-related factors like temperature, sunlight, wind, and precipitation had no notable impact on positive mood, but that temperature, wind, and sunlight did have an effect on negative mood. The increased temperature had a mostly positive effect on negative mood, while increased wind and decreased sunlight had a mostly negative effect on negative mood, though these effects varied from one individual to another. It's science, people.

So, for all those people who feel worse in this weather (and literally everyone on the east coast), you are not alone. At least we are suffering together.