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The Stages Of A Snow Day

A Look Inside a Snow Day Off on a College Campus

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The Stages Of A Snow Day
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Think back to some of the first snowfall that you can remember. Do you remember the excitement you felt when you jumped out of bed and ran to your window? Or being blinded by the snow as you climbed on the window sill and peered out into the pure white abyss that enveloped your entire neighborhood? You couldn't help but to smile as you ran through your house pulling up your snow pants while screaming "It's snowing! It's snowing!"

At that moment, the following words were the most powerful, beautiful three words that a nine-year-old could ever hear: "School is cancelled."

Let's face it. Here we are years later and not much has changed. Instead of running through your house, you run through your dorm hallways alerting everyone of the good news. Your neighborhood turned into your college campus.

Whether you're nine years old or nineteen years old, everyone loves a good snow day.

There is a stigma that the south can't handle the snow, but some schools in the South have found their own way to "handle" the snow.

1. It all starts with everyone's favorite text message: As students send out many passive aggressive tweets at the University staff (as if that is going to make or break their decision) and countless Yik Yaks about "refusing to go to school tomorrow",many schools across the country send out the classic "due to inclement weather" text message. We can all admit that at one point in our lives we have procrastinated that English paper due tomorrow because we were banking on this text.

2. The text message usually results in random dance parties. No matter who is with you in the room, some sort of celebration occurs upon hearing the good news. No matter where you are on campus, you hear shouts and cheers.

3. It's time to talk about how productive you will be on your day off: Now that school is cancelled, you finally have time to finish that English paper you've been putting off for a while. Everyone knows that snow days can be very productive. You can finally catch up on your laundry, finish your homework, do some sort of workout or read a good book. But then again, Netflix sounds so tempting.

4. Once you realize how many fun snow activities there are to do... you can forget about that English paper! You're sitting in your room, and before long you hear people running around in the snow outside, and come down with a very serious case of "FOMO" (the Fear Of Missing Out). Now you HAVE to go outside.

 

5. You soon come to the realization that every activity is way more fun to do when it's snowing. You have never played volleyball in your entire life. But oh, it's snowing outside! So what better of an idea than to take your shirt off and grab your favorite pair of flip flops? You set aside your fear of coming down with the common cold or even Pneumonia for that matter.

6. Soon, the Snow Games get even more intense and creative. Who wants to play drinking games inside the warmth of their heated apartment when there is perfectly good snow outside?

7. So you decide to host your own Winter X Games. The Winter Olympics have nothing on the X Games-College Campus Edition. It might not be the safest activity, but it is fun! Unfortunately, this student was not a finalist in this years games (no one was injured in the making of this GIF).

8. With two feet of snow on the ground, everyone is suddenly a gymnast. No, snow does not always cushion your landing so don't try this at home!

9. Here come the the infinite number of snapchat stories: Incase your own snow day was not as eventful as you'd hoped, you can still come home and see how crazy everyone else's was. If you are not an outdoorsy person, but rather someone who enjoys the warmth and comfort of their own home, that is okay! With social media at our fingertips, you can live vicariously through everyone else's crazy, snow-packed days.


10. The Scavenger Hunt for your car: Although your day off was very fun, the next day's activities, which include trying to find your car under the snow is not quite as fun. Locating your car is the easy part but good lucking getting it out from under mountains of snow. Grab your shovels and gloves and get to digging!

11. After your "snowventures" you might find that ordering takeout every day has caught up to you, and your bank account is not happy about it. Want to make some extra cash? Some apartment complexes are paying $10 an hour to plow snow from the parking lots! So after you dig out your car, you can get paid to dig out everyone else's! It's not ideal work, but a lot of us sure could use the money!


A day off on a college campus is s'no joke!


....And you thought you went to school in the South for "warmer weather"?



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