By Alisha Loyd, Yearbook Editor
Snow days are common for the Northern part of the U.S., but Oklahoma isn’t usually known for having very many. I grew up here and never considered snow a big deal. I guess it just wasn’t that bad when I was growing up.
It wasn’t until Christmas 2010 that I noticed the term winter had a whole new meaning. I was once told if you do not like Oklahoma weather, you can just wait five minutes and it will change.
I now know that saying is not always true. Since my last column, we have experienced two major snow storms.
The first happened the first week in February and allowed students, faculty and staff to miss almost a full week of classes. Having four days with no classes was fantastic for the first day or two. After that, the cabin fever set in; I got so restless that I was actually doing homework, reading textbooks, and rewriting notes.
I have heard several people call the storm a snowpocalypse, which seemed to fit pretty well.
In the second week of February the snow decided to come back and tease us. We were somewhat better prepared that time. There were people from the Physical Plant out shoveling snow off of sidewalks because we all know that we can’t miss any more classes.
I guess we just have to hope the groundhog was right and the snow is finished.