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Yes, There's A Blizzard, But I Just Want To Get To The Dining Hall

A blizzard of tragedy.

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Yes, There's A Blizzard, But I Just Want To Get To The Dining Hall
Samantha Kasselman

Helen Newberry, the most friendly and inviting dorm, is right across the street from Angell Hall at The University of Michigan. The tremendous job the welcoming Michigan students did during the first week of school became too tremendous when the Helen Newberry and Betsy Barbour dormitories started to hear a repetitive shrilling sound every morning. You guessed it, these dormitories welcomed construction.

The gates preceded to block the front door. The residents had to say bye, bye to the 30-second walk to Angell Hall and hello to the detour they thought would never end until this week. This week more ear-splitting, morning wake up calls began as more construction started on the side of the dormitory. You guessed right again, another detour.

This time, however, the detour forces the emerging cold wind and air to freeze your body even longer. And apparently freeze the dining hall food, too. I'm kidding about the cause, the weather doesn't actually freeze the food, the dining hall does.

By the time I get to the dining hall every night for dinner all that is left is some frozen edamame and corn. Nutritious. Yummy. It is as if Elsa is the head manager of the dining hall and can't control her powers, she has to just "Let It Go."

The winter has come and the snow has followed. Although there is a reason for each and every construction project along with each and every frozen vegetable, I'm the student and I'm the customer. The customer is always right.

The baby inches of snow Ann Arbor received this week caused pipes to burst in Mosher Jordan. The best and only dining hall I can conveniently dine in. These pipes burst my day, my lunch, and the other dining halls.

The overwhelming amount of students on this "blizzard" of a day could not be handled by the other dining halls, especially when they can't open their sandwich shop for dinner and they took away Honey Nut Cheerios.

The point behind the disappointment stemming from the blizzard of tragedy is that a student needs food to be a functional human. Being a functioning human is always a priority over being a student. All I ask is that the dining hall give us a hand and lead us in the right step.

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