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Waiting For A Snow Day As A College Student Told By The Cast Of 'The Office'

You keep refreshing the list of closings and delays like your life depends on it. (Maybe it does.)

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Dec 11, 2019

University of Rhode Island

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It's just not the same as waiting for a snow day when you were in high school. The stakes are higher now, every person is for themselves.

1. The Forecast

Your town is getting an unknown amount of snow ranging from just rain to a couple of inches to a full out nor'easter. If you commute, you wish for your school to cancel class just because you hate driving in the snow. Who doesn't? Do meteorologists actually know what is going on or do they just wing it like everybody else?

2. The Rumors

"I hear it's so bad that class is gonna be canceled." "The weather app said it's supposed to snow 100%." "It might get canceled because the roads are so bad as a result of our town sucking at plowing." That one hits home.

3. Checking the Closings/Delays

It starts by you just needing to know whether you have class or not. Do you need to leave your house/dorm a little early to compensate? You don't want to, but your hopes tend to rise a tad.

4. Checking the Forecast

Maybe the weather forecasts have all agreed upon a designated amount or an amount that is at least within five inches of each other. Your hopes continue to rise.

5. Checking the Closings/Delays (again)

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Surrounding college campuses have began to either close or set a delay. Hopes have fully risen, there is no turning back now.

6. Checking the Forecast (again)

You cross your fingers that you'll be hit with a blizzard hard enough to halt Santa in his Christmas Eve travels. Rudolph who?

7. The Expected Amount of Snow Falls

What does Mother Nature have against you?

8. The Expected Amount of Snow Rises

You take it back, Mother Nature is the best.

9. It Begins to Snow

Everyone has to post on social media that is snowing outside. No exceptions.

10a. Class Not Canceled or Delayed sad face

Everyone who didn't study or complete a certain assignment that was due is now screwed.

10b. Class is Delayed!

And you still have class. Why did you pick such a late afternoon time slot?

10c. Class is Delayed! (Part 2)

And you don't have class!

10d. CLASS IS CANCELED!

Woo! Time to spend all day watching Christmas movies and cuddled in a blanket because it feels like the Arctic in your dorm because windows without a draft are not a thing in college.

10. Snow Play Time!

Regardless of the outcome, kids from out of state go in play in the white new substance. The amount of random snowmen and attempted snow igloos around campus is astonishing.

Extra: Get Pelted in the Face with Snowball

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The culprits are your friends or randoms who are playing with the snow. Seriously, what's the deal? I didn't even enjoy playing in it when I was little.

May you have all the snow days your heart desires while not having to make them up. Hopefully, you don't have one of those professors who assigns online work for a snow day. Happy holidays to all and to all a good night!

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Waiting For A Snow Day As A College Student Told By The Cast Of 'The Office'

You keep refreshing the list of closings and delays like your life depends on it. (Maybe it does.)

1. The Forecast

2. The Rumors

3. Checking the Closings/Delays

4. Checking the Forecast

5. Checking the Closings/Delays (again)

6. Checking the Forecast (again)

7. The Expected Amount of Snow Falls

8. The Expected Amount of Snow Rises

9. It Begins to Snow

10a. Class Not Canceled or Delayed *sad face*

10b. Class is Delayed!

10c. Class is Delayed! (Part 2)

10d. CLASS IS CANCELED!

10. Snow Play Time!

Extra: Get Pelted in the Face with Snowball

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4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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