Due to a snowstorm that started Monday night, the University cancelled all classes on Tuesday and classes before 10 a.m. on Wednesday.
A text message sent at 5:53 a.m. on Tuesday informed students that morning classes for that day would be canceled, and a second message at 2:06 p.m. reported that classes would not resume until 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning. The snowstorm affected dining services as well.
Most students, like freshman Marcos Pascual, were glad to find out that classes were cancelled.
“I was so happy,” he said. “I had a dream we had school, so I woke up really pissed off, and then I looked at my phone and I was like, I’m going to go back to bed.”
Freshman Emily Labruna echoed his sentiment.
“I woke up in the middle of the night at 5:30, so I was like I guess I might as well stay up until they let us know,” she said. “I de-set all my alarms.”
Freshman Matt Brotman was less enthusiastic because he was unaffected by the snow day.
“I don’t have classes on Tuesday ever, so it literally didn’t affect me at all,” he said. “I was like, regardless, I didn’t even care. I just slept most of the day, to be honest.”
While some students, like Brotman, stayed inside all day to avoid the freezing temperatures, others went outside to enjoy the snow. Freshman Mellissa Picker had a snowball fight with her friends, and freshman Kai Inoki built a snowman on the freshman quad.
Students’ reactions to the snow differed according to where they were from.
“[I’m] from New York, so [I]’ve seen snow before,” Labruna said. “But there were other people who were from California that wanted to go play in the snow, because they hadn’t seen it.”
Freshman Hadley VanRenterghem was unimpressed by the amount of snow.
“Physics lab was canceled,” VanRenterghem said. “It was great, but there [was] not even that much snow. I really thought they were going to make the evening classes happen. I was like, this is not a winter storm.”
Since 9 a.m. classes were canceled on Wednesday, exams scheduled at that time were canceled as well. While some believed the cancellations were unnecessary, Picker expressed her excitement that the cancellations occurred the week before Spring Break.
“My midterm on Wednesday was canceled, my only midterm for the week, because it was before 10,” Picker said. “Actually, I was probably happier about that than I was about the snow day. That was the one thing I actually had to do this week, and now I have time just to hang out before I leave.”
