Kevin's Story—Cold weather

Goodbye to cold weather? ‘Halle-frickin-lujah!’
By Kevin Mouritsen

Snow. Ice. Sleet. Hail.

These are just a few of the weather conditions that Logan residents have been dealing with for about the last five months. USU students are speaking out against the wet and the cold, and rejoicing in the rumors of fast-approaching warmer weather.

“All I have to say is halle-frickin-lujah,” said Stephanie Rolz, a freshman majoring in Music, upon hearing that temperatures will start climbing this weekend.

Cold and wet weather must have a guilty conscience as of late; they’ve been blamed for a mile-long list of problems: car crashes, frozen toes, high energy bills, frozen pipes…not to mention all the Spring activities that USU students have had to postpone because of inclement weather.

“I’d be outside all the time having picnics,” said disgruntled freshman history major Kylee Christensen. “Just hanging out outside, playing hacky sack, you know, but that’s not gonna happen because it’s always snowing.”

And hacky sack isn’t the only activity that’s been abandoned these past few months. Students looking for the rejuvenating vitamin D from the sun’s rays, and a bronze-like tan, are voicing their opinions about the never-ending cold front.

“I looked out the window this morning and what did I see?” asked sophomore Josh Jones, a hint of sarcasm in his voice. “Snow on the bushes. That’s what I saw.”

Jones said that the cold weather can make an already frustrating day even worse. “I already had a midterm this morning, on no sleep, so how did [the snow] make me feel? Not good.”

So what would Jones be doing if the sun were shining and the birds chirping? “I like to sunbathe, and that is one activity I cannot do with snow,” he said.

Other students said they were tired of having to bundle up every day to go to school.

“It’s annoying, because I want to wear my shorts and short-sleeve shirts, and it just won’t happen,” said sophomore finance major Andrew Vera. “I’m sick of winter.”

Sophomore Ben Draper agreed. “I wish it was warmer so I didn’t have to wear long sleeves everyday and not have a tan,” he said.

Some students also agreed that it’s not necessarily the cold weather that puts a damper on things, but the longevity of it.

“Basically, cold weather is okay for about 2 months, but then after February it should be gone,” said Erik Wynn, a junior majoring in Spanish. So how does Wynn feel about the cold weather lasting until February? “I hate it and am definitely sick of it,” he said.

Sophomore Tyson Stoddard, a landscape architecture major, is waiting for warmer weather so that he can get active again in the great outdoors.

“I would go golfing and I would play more tennis and go on hikes,” if it were warmer outside, he said.

Students say, however, that there are signs of hope that warm weather will soon melt away the frozen memories of a bleak Winter, and welcome in the dawn of barbecues, ultimate Frisbee, and, or course, sunbathing.

“It will be nice when we can get out and start enjoying the Spring,” said Stoddard.

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