It is all coming to an End.

Wow. We are almost done with freshman year. I cannot believe it. And this is our last blog right? It is all so unbelievable right now. One side of me REALLY REALLY wants to go home but the other side of me really does not want this great experience to end. I guess for this blog, I am going to do the classic reflection of what I learned during my first year in college. (If this is not our last blog, I think I'll be a bit embarrassed to have written about this. LOL)

1. The classic. "Procrastination kills." It kills me in high school, but in college, I think that its deadly horrifying. One day of procrastination seems to ruin your whole grade. I learned to not procrastinate. In high school, I could fly by with doing homework the day before, but in college, sometimes one day is not even enough.

2. Friendships last- I guess moving away from your group of friends in high school really is a test of friendship. However, I learned that it is okay to be so far away. As long as we are home for break and get to see each other often, the friendship that you always had with your friends will always be there.

3. Being an only child is tough- I prepared myself before entering college. I told myself not to miss my family too much because I had to get my priorities straight. Well. I lied. I was very homesick. Its been almost 2 months since I've been home and I am admitting it. I am still a Mommy and Daddy's girl.

4. College is not a smooth ride, neither is anything after. - Okay so, don't laugh. I had big ambitions coming into college. I wanted to go to Medical school =[ But after taking chemistry and getting an idea about organic chemistry, I am starting to have doubts. I am struggling on the fence right now as to what I should do.

5. Dealing with important decisions- College is all about decisions. Whether you succeed or not really depends on how much effort you put in your decisions. Decisions pave way to opportunities. Needless to say, they make up who you are. Just a simple thing like deciding whether you should stay at home Friday night really says a lot about who you are.

6. Lastly, English is fun- I liked English in high school, but saying goodbye to it really does suck a little bit. It is the last English class that I am going to take forever. Now, that sounds so scary. Can I survive without someone always correcting me grammatically in the real world? I guess we'll see.


To close off, I really enjoyed blogging =] and thanks for all the comments. You guys have been the best group ever! I wish you all a good life and a successful college experience!

-Signing off,
Emily Huang

The Big Event and April 16

I had a lot of fun this week =]
WARNING: The beginning of this post is a bit emo.

To start off, Yesterday was April 16. A day of remembrance. I didn't go to any of the events during the day but I went to the candlelight ceremony at night, and as freshman, I would have never imagined how difficult it must have been for the hokie community when this tragedy happend. The ceremony was very sad and it was tough going through it. Seeing all people come together and share a moment of silence was a truly great thing. I did not cry during the ceremony, but when I got back to my room, it started to hit me. I started listening to very inspiring songs( I know, emo, I don't why I did that either) and I had flashbacks of what just happend. I started remembering all of the descriptions of the 32 victims and realized how accomplished these people are. Aside from feeling like a total slacker, I started to think, that I take so many things for granted. I complain about doing homework and studying, but then I witness these people who acually had stories to tell. They were in honors, work their butts off, and had so many ambitions,but in the end, their destiny lead them to this tragedy. I started thinking, What did these people do to deserve this? They had so much going for them and if you think one step further, imagine how much they can help our society and make a difference. I felt sad, but at the same time, very blessed. It makes me want to actually motivate myself to be just like them.

Well anyway, enough of the mushy gushy stuff. Today was the Big Event! I had soo much fun. Although I am super sore. We went to a lady's house and did all her yard work. We planted trees, raked, watered trees, dug holes, pull out weeds, basically all you can think of. She was super nice and gave us really good food and hospitality! I can't wait for next year! I'll definitely do it again!

Relay for Life and Movie Marathon

This weekend was absolutely amazing! So many things were happening on campus and I've never been more excited! So for this blog, I think I'm gonna talk about what happen.

So to start out with the obvious, Relay for life was on Friday! Unfortunately, this year, I didn't participate in it, but I definitely regret that decision! I had so much fun! After classes on Friday, a couple of my friends and I went to mall and the movies to see Date Night. It was such a funny movie (I definitely recommend) and I had so much fun just relaxing and going out. However, the real fun did not start until after the movies, when we decided to visit some of our friends that were in Relay. When I went on the drillfield, I knew for sure I regret my decision to not participate in it. It was absolutely amazing! The whole school was there basically raising money, selling things, playing games, walking laps, and there was even a band playing! Although it was super freezing, my roommate, boyfriend, and I stayed there until 2am just chilling and having fun. To make things even better, we got to take a picture with Ryan Williams! People were super supportive and it was just great because everyone was doing this to help raise money for cancer. I can't believe I missed out on this! I am for sure doing this next year!

On Saturday, my friends and I decided to see another movie; How to Train your Dragon! Oh dear this movie was SO GOOD! GO SEE IT NOW!!!!!! It is SOOOOOOOOOO cute! I think I was obsessed with it for like a whole day because when I got home from watching it, I watched it again with my roommate online (I know I know its bad, but it was like 1am in the morning!) It has sorta a cliche' and predictable but the animations and character development was absolutely stunning!

Anyways, can you guys believe we have exactly ONE MONTH left of school? Although these last weeks will be a rough patch, just think about what we will be coming home to! AHH summer sun! I LOVE IT! =] Keep hanging on guys! WE CAN DO THIS! WE ARE HOKIES. (Sorry I'm so hyper talking about my weekend.)

Summer and the Human Timeline

HAPPY EASTER!=]

With the great weather this week, I cant help but to think about summer. This is seriously the time when we all just wanna go home and and relax. Its getting harder to concentrate on school because I just wanna get out and have some fun. I hate and love this feeling. Anyways, I am really running out of ideas on what to blog about so I guess I'll just list some things I wanna accomplish over summer and talk about an upcoming issue that relates to all of us!

- Go to the beach, any beach. just a beach.
- Go to the lake
- Go to Kings dominion
- Go fishing
- Go to the Baltimore aquarium
- Watch the sunset
- Have lots of BBQ's
- Attend a carnival
- Volunteer
- Take EMT classes?
- GO SHOPPING!
- Try to keep my room clean
- Have Fun
- Try to keep in shape

Anyways, Have you ever thought about how many things we need to do before we are 30? Just to name a few on my list, I have to basically finish school (not including if I decide to go to grad school or some other type of school), get a job, raise enough money to buy a house, get a new car, get married, and have my first kid. This is really weird but I started thinking about that because I just realized that I am 19 now. Next year, I am 20, and I have only a decade to finish doing all this crap. Of course I don't have to do it before I am 30, but it would be nice wouldn't it? I cant help but thinking how fast this is gonna go. Obviously, 4 years of college is gonna go buy so quick, but after that, we will be 22-23 yrs old and we only have about 7 years left to do the rest of the stuff. It takes a long time to save up enough money to just buy a house and to get married. I cant imagine myself doing any more things.

But anyways, that was the most random thing. LOL but I guess it does fill up a blog post =] so I guess it works out! Enjoy the nice weather guys!

Take Back the Night!

I must say that this week was pretty awesome. Besides having a chemistry test and a lot of assignments to do, I would have to say, this week ended well. One of the highlights of my week was on Thursday, when I decided to attend "Take Back the Night," a rally and march for women against violence, in honor of Morgan Harrington. I must say, even though I live like 30-45 minutes away from Washington D.C, I never knew how a march or a "Protest" felt like. Like all people who are a part of the stereotype, at first, I thought "Oh great, crazy protesters! I can't believe I am doing this!" I must say, I never would have decided to march if it wasn't an assignment for the women's studies class that I am taking. However, I am so glad I went. It started with a ceremony where we had speakers that talk about organizations that help prevent the violence of women in our community. There were people who shared their personal stories with us and the stories were absolutely heartbreaking. I even shed a few tears while listening to them. (I know, don't laugh, I am a sucker for these things.)Then, we all lit candles, chanted, and walked around campus and downtown to raise awareness of this issue. It was funny seeing people look out their dorm windows and stuff. Its funny because I use to be one of those people as well. I would be like, "What is happening?" being so curious as to why so many people are yelling outside. But now, since the tables are turned, I got to experience this in the perspective of the people who are actually affected by this. I felt very lucky and blessed to be living life with no burdens and tragedies. When I was walking, I definitely felt like the typical "college" students that always protest on T.V. Now I know what they mean when the younger generations have the power to make change in our world. I wish more people are aware of these issues. Not just the issue of violence against women, but many other issues that are really tragic as well. A lot of people don't know that women often times get sexually abused and raped. Even some of my friends asked me, "What? Theres violence against women? I never heard of that." This shows that our society needs to be more aware and involved in learning about these issues.

Randomosity

Hi! Well, I totally forgot that we had a blog due because I have like 10 assignments that are due this week. Plus, my chemistry test is happening in a matter of 5 hours so its crunch time! This week, I don't really have a story to tell, instead, I decided that I am just gonna list some random things that are on the top of my mind right now. Okay, so, here it goes.

- I am currently eating gummy bears
- I am going to fail chemistry
- I am currently obsessed with eating oranges, I had two today already. =]
- What is so wrong with universal health care?
- There is a green pencil right next on my desk
- Ironically, my vacuum is very dusty.
- The weather today confuses me; its sunny but chilly right now, and we are getting a mix of rain and snow tonight?
-It is now 2:04pm
- I am not very productive
- My toes are itchy. What a random place.
- I only have two sheets of printer paper left on my printer
- LEAVE TIGER WOODS ALONE. geez.
- Dieting is very difficult.
- I am thinking about the beach <3
- Why is this semester so much harder?
- Why are teddy bears naked? They are suppose to be G-rated toys.
- Why does Winnie the Pooh have no pants on? (And hes proud of it in the picture above)
- I recently saw a site with Disney Princes modeling underwear?!
- My roommate is eating a sandwich
- I hope my calculator does not run out of batteries during the test
- My roommate painted her nails neon green
- Ah! Course request starts tomorrow?!
- Justin Bieber's songs are stuck in my head
- I am full.
- I am so anti-veggies
-What really came first? The chicken or the egg?
- Man,its really hard to fill up at least 350 words.
- I really want to get Samosas
- Have you tried the bubble tea at Opass?

OH OH! and a really random thing to pass time.
Simplify this inequality; isolating i.

9x-7i > 3(3x-7u)




Answer :
9x-7i > 9x-21u
-7i > -21u
= i <3 u

Spring Break and Evil Micky D's Sweet Tea!

Hooray! Another blog post! (not really but that's okay) Anyways, I guess for this blog, I am going to talk about spring break and sweet tea because that is what I can remember on the top of my head. This is definitely going to be a really random post that is all over the place. (Sorry guys, blame it on the sweet tea...you shall read about it in the further paragraphs)

Spring break was a week long, and I felt like it was only one weekend. I did absolutely nothing productive. I spent a lot of time with family and friends. It was exciting to go back because almost all of the colleges were out on the same day.

On Saturday and Sunday, I went shopping! I haven't shopped in months and to finally be able to go to the mall was super fun! On Monday, I had a sleepover with some of my friends. I know I know! I seem to be a bit too old for slumber parties, but hey! I am still a kid at heart! I bonded with my friends that I haven't seen since winter break! Its good to still keep in touch with them and being able to catch up felt so light hearted.

However, spring break wasn't all that good. I got an eye infection and I looked really bad for a few days. My left eye was all swollen and I am still taking antibiotics for it. But anyways, back to the good stuff. =)

For the rest of the week, I got to go see "She's Outta My League" and I spent some time bonding with my parents.

Now, I promised I will talk about Micky D's Sweet Tea, because this is all I can think about the whole day. So yesterday, when I came back to Tech, I went to McDonald's. I live in Monteith (The Cadet/Civilian dorm that no one knows exists, and Micky D's is my backyard, so its the fastest access I have to food. I got the Sweet Tea there and although it was very good, it ruined my life for about 24 hours. I drank this at about 8-9pm and IT KEPT MY UP THE WHOLE ENTIRE NIGHT! I had a chemistry lab midterm this morning, so I stayed up to study. I went to bed at around 2:30 and lied their until 5:15. I was going crazy last night because whatever I did, I could not fall asleep. I decided to read, play with my iTouch, study some more, stared into space, and even count sheep! I was kinda freaking out because I had a chemistry lecture at 9am and the midterm at 12 and I cant function with just 3 hours of sleep! So I had no choice but to skip my chemistry class this morning (which was nerve racking because I've never skipped a class this semester) and sleep in until English. (I didn't want to miss English because of attendance)and I came in to find out that class was actually canceled! AH! Rough day, but surprisingly, I am functioning kinda well with 3 hours of sleep. I'm still not tired! geesh!

Semi-evil professors and Poem

So, its definitely the week before spring break and there is no doubt that there are a million assignments due. This week is going to suck. I have a math test, a pig practical exam (Labeling the body parts of the pig) and a biology exam. Plus, there is a lot of busy work; random assignments that I have to turn in. Why do teachers like to assign everything at the same time? I know that a lot of professors do not like to assign tests right after break because they are afraid students are not going to remember anything, but I feel like assigning them before the break is even worse. EVERY professor does this and it is certainly not going to yield high grades on tests because during the week, students are too busy scrambling and figuring out what to study first and last. Not to mention, I am SO TIRED! February SUCKS! During these four weeks, I have had a test every week and I have a list of at least 10 assignments before my week is over. I have no weekends anymore because its "catch up" time. But anyway, enough of my ranting, here is the poem that we did in class.

The Phrase is "Just Believe"

You have everything you need, if you just believe.
Give your dreams the wings to fly
Only Girl in the Sixties Cowsill Family
I don't know that we will go all the way this year
Jackson just lay down
Patrick looked confused
"Working Class Hero,"
Grand Slams to even more extra-marital affairs
Browse and shop related looks.
A few words from our clients.
The theme of this season is entitled We Believe in ...
That you're never gonna use your star
It's not that medicines are 'crummy,' but that placebos are so powerful.
And give your dreams the wings to fly. You have everything you need.
Buy Just Believe It for just $9.99.
You aren't a fairy in disguise, ... We don't want to upset her further by making her think we don't believe her
Nature always takes you at your own valuation
Feeling so pressure again. enough is enough, Believe me or not...


This makes absolutely no sense at all. But ENJOY your breaks! I am definitely excited to go home! I miss my family and friends. =]

A Random Creative Writing Story

Topics Chosen:

Setting: Sunday School classroom
Details: Kiddie Pool (?!)
Character: First kid to attend college in his family
Audience: Was intended for children, but after picking the topic, its general.

Okay so, I tried my best. It is very boring and makes absolutely no sense but I guess this is what I came up with based on my constraints.

The teacher screeches the chalk on the blackboard. He diagrams the family tree of Abraham, something that I have learned since I was a little kid. His voice is very monotone, yet appealing when he gets very excited. It’s been about a half an hour now and I can feel myself starting to daydream. I start to lose focus on what he is saying. I am a college student. My attention span is short, but I think I can still remember at least some things that people say to me. I still attend Sunday school to help teach the little kids at our local church. I grew up in a religious family, so when I see these little kids, I see myself as well. You can tell that they are bored, and like most children, they have been forced to attend Sunday school to hopefully prepare them for what they will encounter in life. Their ages range around five or six, so they do not understand the significance of why they are here. They would much rather jump inside a kiddie pool and play outside in the lovely summer weather.

Speaking of kiddie pools, I just became an uncle about 2 years ago, and my brother got my niece, Anna, a little kiddie pool this past weekend. I am on summer vacation and my parent’s house is not so far from his. Every since my break started, we would eat lunch and spend time together every weekend. My niece is very cute. She is well raised and unlike other babies, she doesn’t cry as much; which is surprising since my brother was a big cry baby even when he’s older than me. I remember when I left for college at Virginia Tech; which was about 5 hours away. He couldn’t stop bawling his eyes out because I was the first to actually attend a prestigious university. My bother only attended a community college and the furthest he has gone was 10 miles away from our house.

Anyway, so this past weekend, I went over to his house and he had a kiddie pool set up. The water came up to my ankles and the pool itself was made up with inflatables. There were little beach toys lying around, so I am guessing he was trying to come up with a “beach setting”, but obviously it failed since this pool was in his backyard. I went over to play with my little niece, but then all of a sudden, a rabbit came in to the backyard and…

“Alex? Alex? Can you please pass out the worksheets?”

The Love/Hate Relationship with Valentine's Day

This past week sucked.

• A 500 word discussion for Women's Studies
• 250 journal response for Women's Studies
• Response to discussion board for Women's Studies (I am not very fond of this class)
  
• Chemistry lab report
  
• Chemistry pre-lab report
• English Blog
  
• ARIS chemistry homework
• Math exam 1
  
• Math quiz 3
• Biology pre-lab quiz
• First Biology Exam.
  

All due by/on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. So Basically that leaves Thursday-Saturday free..kind of. But anyways, this blog is about Valentines Day.

So when all of this was happening in my life, my roommate participated in the Secret Valentine program that was conducted by her church. Throughout the week, she spent numerous hours decorating, making cards, buying flowers, and buying gifts to surprise her secret valentine. I have to admit. I love Valentine's Day, but it also really does suck. All that planning, money, and time that is put into this holiday is intense. Almost every single day of the week, she received chocolates, flowers, bears, cards and I thought that was really sweet. Seeing all of this has made me question what I am going to get for valentines day. My boyfriend Albert, who also goes to VT, told me that he has a surprise install for me, but I couldn't wait until Sunday for it to be revealed! I kept nagging him and he kept joking, you are thinking too much, there's no surprise anymore! Finally, I started to hate Valentine's Day because I was frustrated in what I was going to get him!

When Sunday finally rolled around, I woke up and just laid in bed for the longest time. My roommate kept asking me, "Emily, don't you need to go pee." I kept saying "No" because I really did not have to go. As she started to head out to go to church service, I saw a balloon in front of our door. I immediately got really excited and jumped out of bed. When I opened the door, there were post-its everywhere with messages that my boyfriend wrote. I was very excited and my roommate kept laughing at me because the whole week, I was bitter with her getting so much Valentine's gifts and I was just hiding in my room doing homework. She told me that she tried to get me to go to sleep the night before and as I was sleeping, Albert came over to our dorm at like 3:00 am to decorate. After I found the surprise, Albert came over to give me flowers and we spent the whole day eating lunch and seeing a movie together.

I have a very bittersweet feeling about Valentine's Day now. The planning and the hard work and takes up so much time. However, in the end, it is definitely worth it to see the person you spend it with be so surprised!

Reminising the 90's.

Well, I guess this week we have all been pumped up about the snow, but I thought since I already blogged about the snow, it would be very unoriginal to blog about it again. However, I must add that I am extremely jealous of NOVA right now because they got 30 inches of snow. That is more than two feet! It seems like after our class leaves high school, all the amazing things start to happen. I mean, 30 inches of snow? How often do we get to see that in our lifetime?! I told my parents to take some pictures, but I doubt that the feeling would be the same as compared to actually being there. But anyways, this post is about the 90's.

No one really talks about the 90's but I feel like sometimes its really nice to rethink back to when we were kids and compare how life was then as compared to now. So, lets see how much you guys remember! Here's a list of things that came in my mind.

• Pop groups/Singers! (Nsync', Backstreet Boys, Destiny's Child, No Secrets, O'Town, 98 degrees, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and many more)
• CD's , The first CD players, cassette tapes
• VCR players
• Rollerblades!
• Plastic cartoon lunchboxes
• POWER RANGERS
• Poke'mon, Digimon
• Junie B Jones Books, Goosebumps, Nancy Drew
• Arthur, Sesame Street, Teletubbies , WISHBONE
  
• Tamaguchi pets/ GIGA pets
  
• Furby dolls
• Barbie and Hot Wheels
• Ninja Turtles
  
• "Lisa Frank"
• Hide and Seek, Tag, Cops and Robbers, Marco Polo, Freeze Tag, Duck Duck Goose
• The old fashion Nerf guns where we had to manually put the bullets in
• The robotic pet dogs/cats/ birds
• Collecting Beanie Babies!
• Shoes with flashing lights on the heals, shoes with Velcro
  
• Bill Nye the Science Guy!
  
• Paper Fortune tellers
• The only thing interesting on the computer was "Paint"
  
• The emergence of the scooter
  
• Zany Brany
• Nintendo 64'
• Big Blocky cell phones!
• Tucking in shirts and wearing pants to your bellies
• Stretchy Pants, Jean Jackets, Tacky printed sweaters, Sweatpants with matching sweatshirts that have elastic bands on your wrists and ankles
  
• Scrunchies!
• Necklaces made out of candy
• Bouncy balls, neon colored bracelets, Whoppie Cushions
• Bubblicious gum
• Watercolors
• GameBoys
  
• Beetle Juice, Even Stevens, Lizzie Mcguire, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Sister, Sister, Full House, Recess, Rugrats
  

Can you guys think of anymore? There are numerous other things out there but for now, these are all the things I can think of. Doesn't it make you want to go back to the 90's? Of course, there weren't any ipods, cell phones, or laptops then, but it was so much fun going outside and playing all day. It is quite amazing how much a decade, well, two decades now, can change us. All of this does not seem like it happen 20 years ago. It seems like now I have totally lost track of what was back then, how the world worked for us. I think I am growing old.

Popcorn Feud.

I was at the movie theater last Saturday watching the movie "The Blind Side." It was a great movie, but as I was coming out of the room, I saw a medium half eaten popcorn in the trash. Seeing this had completely ruined my night. As you all may know, popcorn in movie theaters are VERY expensive. I checked the menu and a medium size popcorn is about $6.75. So basically, the person who threw away half the bag of popcorn has wasted $3.37.

So, what's the big deal? Its just a bag of popcorn right? Now, $3.37 may not be a lot of money for us, but saving this money and food could go a long way sometimes. As you all have heard, The Haiti earthquake has killed thousands of people. When I was walking by ABP, some students were shouting "Help Haiti! A dollar could buy them half a box of Gatorade that you would get at Costco!" So basically, the $3.37 the person who bought the popcorn has wasted could have bought more than 1 big box of 24 Gatorade bottles to help the victims of Haiti.

I know that I am basically just ranting about popcorn, but in reality, things like this happen all the time. I am not saying the person who threw away the popcorn was completely wrong. Maybe the popcorn tasted really bad, or the person who has ate the popcorn felt really sick afterwards. (I had some popcorn of my own and it tasted fine) However, regardless of these reasons, I think people should be wise about what they chose to waste their money on. In third world countries, a lot of people don't even know what popcorn is.

I'm not really addressing only popcorn in this situation. (Although I guess half the blog is about popcorn) but I feel like nowadays a lot of people seem to forget that we are very fortunate when it comes to being able to go to school and have 3 meals a day. Of course, everyone has problems, and I am not trying to preach anyone to do anything, but it would be nice to get this message across, seeing how such terrible tragedies are happening around the world.

The Weather Dilemma

Who could have ever imagined that we would be greeted with such a surprise on our first Spring Semester? Today is the first Thursday back at Virginia Tech, which means I had to wake up extra early to catch the shuttle for the Math Emporium orientation at 8:00. Waking up to cold weather is definitely not something that I expected, especially since over the past few days, all I needed was a sweatshirt to go out the door. It was one of the coldest mornings I have ever experienced in Blacksburg. I have always heard rumors that it is cold, but I never expected the wind chills to be so cold that it will turn my hands, face and ears into human popsicles even with gloves and earmuffs on. The morning started out with some drizzling rain, but the weather soon did a 180 and turned to sleet and snow.

My interpretation of "inclement" weather has changed since High School. Back in the day, whenever the weatherman announced that there was a possibility of a snowstorm coming up, I would probably neglect my homework for a bit and refresh the county homepage every 30 seconds to see if there is a delay; or if we are lucky, a closing! Being from Northern Virginia, where snow is considered "rare" in comparison to Blacksburg, we get out of school for only one to three inches of snow. However, during winter break, when all the high school students were out of school because of the twenty plus inches they received, I started to get jealous. Not because they got days off of school (They had a week as opposed to us having a whole month), but because I am beginning to turn into a "real" adult that no longer wishes and gets excited for snow. When I was little, I would be doing snow dances to get out of school, but my parents would always tell me; "Why would you wish for snow? Snow is bad news!" At that time, I would always think they were crazy for not liking snow, but after this winter break I am beginning to understand what they mean. I started to really hate snow because school closings no longer apply to me and I am stuck inside the house. Plus, I am now confronted with the responsibility to go out there to shovel and the reality that snow is actually a really a terrible thing. It seems like over the break, the thrill of going sledding and building snowmen just went away because snow was actually preventing me from doing things I want to do.

So today, when I was confronted again with this natural dilemma, I realized that I have a new perspective on it. I was told that Virginia Tech secretly has these hot water pipes below the cement so when it does snow or ice, it automatically melts because the ground is too hot for the precipitation to stick. I came into the semester thinking, "Great, we will never have any school closings." However, today, I think its fair to say that I have been proven wrong; the snow and ice does stick! And also, we DO get closings.

So to make a long story short, today I came up with the conclusion that weather does drive you crazy, regardless of it being very beautiful and different from a normal day. While I was walking to my classes, I was questioning what the sky is dropping down towards us. it looks like rain to the naked eye, but as I was closing my umbrella, I realized that it was actually small pieces of ice! I don't think I was ever outside when there was sleet, and one thing is for sure, it is very cold, dreading, and not to mention, pretty dangerous. So I guess the moral of this story is, snow is fun; to an extent, and I am not old enough YET to rule out the fact that snow could be very beneficial. Let's just hope this good feeling continues on for a couple more years or even tomorrow- No classes please!?