By: Daniel Patrick Moriarity '14I have always enjoyed the holiday season. The smiles, the laughter, that indescribable feeling of optimism and the love of life that only comes during winter are things that I cherish as I enjoy them, and reminisce on with a smile when I can’t. My first holiday season was a great one, full of new friends who felt like old family, and I will remember it as long as I live. One of my favorite moments last term came on one December night, right before finals week, where my friends and I sang Christmas carols around the piano in the Anderson lobby to an ever growing audience of our peers and Ando staff. From “What Child is This?” to “Silent Night” people kept coming downstairs to join the fun and help us celebrate the spirit of the holidays. After over a half an hour of bonding and laughter we all turned to return to our rooms. As I turned to leave I looked out the window to see a halo of light created by one of Elmira College’s antique lampposts illuminate the large, fluffy snowflakes as they gently fell from the sky, almost as if it was a just-shaken snow globe left next to a burning fireplace. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
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