I adamantly believe that the only redeeming quality of freezing weather is the possibility of snow. That anxious, excited feeling you get when you realize your 9 a.m. accounting exam might possibly get canceled the next day. The nervous mind games you play: to stop studying immediately, knowing in your gut that school will be canceled or to continue studying so as not to jinx the possibility of that frozen glory falling from the heavens? You wait. You wait some more...

Then, finally, it happens. The TCU Alert is sent. The Chancellor has spoken. Across the campus, iPhones buzz as professors blast inboxes with the corrected schedule and friends blast GroupMe's with snowday plans. You wake up the next morning to see the campus transformed into Texas's version of a winter wonderland. Although the snow isn't enough to blanket the whole campus, it's just enough to make your little Southern heart flutter. You suddenly retrograde to your middle school self as you fling open your bedroom door, jump into your roommate's bed, and scream, “COME PLAY WITH ME!!!"

Suddenly, there is no difference between local Fort Worth elementary school kids and college students. We're all drunk with excitement, bundled to the nines, gathering whatever materials we can come up with to sled on: trash can lids, cookie sheets, cardboard boxes. The cold becomes irrelevant when all that matters is playing with your best friends. There are snowball fights to be had, touch football games to be played, snow angles to make, snowmen to build and hills to sled down.

Within an hour though, your butt is frozen from so many slips, and your toes are numb in your ill-equipped rubber rain boots. You run inside to hot chocolate, blankets, and Disney movies.You stay on the couch the rest of the night. All your plans to go out with your friends melt away as you realize how inconceivable it would be to leave the warmth of your own house. So instead of getting ready for a night with your friends, you snuggle tighter into the folds of your couch, check the likes on your snow day insta, and scroll through Netflix to find yet another chick flick that you and your roomies will most likely fall asleep to. Happy snowday, TCU.