Wednesday, March 9. Temperature: 77 degrees. You run out of the doors of your dorm, looking up at the sun. You stretch your arms out, as if you were Rose on the Titanic. What is this feeling? Is this possibly... warmth?
Ah, it’s here again. The first warm day of the year, the day where college students around the world finally emerge from their dorms to finally experience what it’s like to be outside. After a long, cold winter, warm weather seemed like sort of a myth. Are the days of walking in blizzards and below-freezing temperatures across campus finally behind us? Students everywhere are crowding up against windows, gazing in amazement at the bright day before them, as if they haven’t seen a day like this in what seems like years.
It’s that day of the year where you wonder to yourself, since when were there THIS many people that go to your school? Just a few days ago, encountering ANYONE outside was an uncommon occurrence. Now, it seems as if there’s so many students around, there’s justification for another plague.
It seems like every student and their mother is outside doing some kind of activity. Boys who got cut from the soccer team are outside kicking a ball around, seemingly trying to fill the void left in their poor hearts. The stoners have taken to longboarding around campus, while other groups of students have kept to the simple toss of a Frisbee.
There are many new dangers afoot now that it’s warm out. What if you get hit with a Frisbee? Knocked over with a soccer ball? Run over by a skateboard? God, what is the cost of such a nice day?
You try your best to stay out of the way, but it's not possible. There’s too many people. You’re just trying to walk to class, but with this much danger around, is it even possible?
“Watch out!” You hear in the distance, but it’s already too late. You glance to your right as a soccer ball approaches your head, as if in slow motion. The only thing you can think of in that moment is the "SNL" skit; “Mmm whatcha say?”
This must be the reason why they were cut from the team. You go down in crashing defeat. Is this the cost of such a nice day? You should have just stayed inside.
