Go Away Rain, and Take the Snow With You

By: Sarah Schwadron '14

The first thing I said to my roommate this morning was ‘if you don’t have good news, don’t talk to me’.

She laughed and said that she understood, and that she felt the same way.

Today just didn’t start off on the right foot. At. All. Thursday’s are never fun because they are supposed to start a 7 in the morning. I say supposed to because that’s when I wake up. And I usually do… but not today. I didn’t hear it and overslept it by 40 minutes.

Running to freshman writing in the pouring rain, wearing sweats, rain boots and a non-Elmira sweatshirt is not fun. I swear I got a dirty look from one of the Buildings and Grounds employees for my Dickinson College Sweatshirt.

Or that could’ve been because I ran in front of his lawnmower...

But I digress. Quiz in Freshman Writing followed by a Psychology test is never fun. Now I’m parked in the library until I finish my work or get hungry. That is the plan for the rest of today, working on essays until I die. Basically.

It’s not bad studying in the library though. Everybody basically leaves you alone, but are more than willing to help when you need it. There’s tons of reference books everywhere for help with my Twenty Page Paper, and some fiction books for when I need a break and cannot possibly reading another word having to do with either Homer or the Iliad. Urgh.

After I work on my Twenty Page Paper, I have a Psychology homework to edit, an Education essay to type up, find five fallacies in today’s society, and a core essay. One five hours of sleep. So much fun I can barely stand it.

To top everything off, it is pouring cats and dogs outside, and there’s supposed to be snow tonight. Two to four inches. I could stand today if it were sunny and forty degrees. But no. It has to be like thirty degrees and rainy. Blech.

I think all of this warrants a bit of retail therapy. Some new socks are in order I believe…

And now I am going to work on all of those assignments, leaving you with a few words of wisdom: Rain boots are your best friends at Elmira College.