Best of having snow days

Agathe Pompon

A-Team Member

The best part about snow days is the day before they cancel school. It always starts with a very obvious statement that outside is covered with snow. You half joke with your friends that it would be great not to have class tomorrow. As the day goes through and the snow on the ground grows thicker so does your hope.

The idea of not going to class is now in everybody's mind.

At the end of the afternoon, there is always this person who heard from a friend that heard from a friend that classes are cancelled. But still nothing on the portal.

Then the moment arrives. Explosion of statuses on Facebook from students screaming for joy. Multiple texts from your friends already making plans for the night. Feverishly, you go on the SEMO website because you need to see with your own eyes that it is true. "Main campus will be closed." Tears of relief. Excitement. Freedom. The feeling is overwhelming. The weekend now has three days. Anything is possible for tomorrow.

And the next day comes and you do nothing. I woke up at 4 p.m., watched three movies at a friend's house and went back to sleep. But it was great!

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Alex Frisby

A-Team Member

Snow days are always welcome in my life. I love being able to kick back, relax and enjoy a long day of nothing. The only energy I usually exert on a snow day is getting up to go eat, or if I have a friend to sled with, I'll usually muster up enough strength for that. This past snow day, however, was a little different for me.

I recently got engaged, so I'm in full-fledged wedding planner mode. Lucky for me my fiancé was in town this past weekend (he lives in Tennessee) so we could start narrowing down specifics about our big day. I think he was less enthused than I was, but he still sat and listened to me gab about caterers and photographers and whatever else for basically the entire weekend. He was a really good sport about it, too. Not many guys want to give up their Saturday to walk around Bed, Bath and Beyond for three hours making a wedding registry, but he rarely complained and we actually had fun.

Needless to say, I had a great weekend and snow day. I checked a few items off of my to-do list, I spent some quality time with my fiancé and had homemade chocolate chip cookies with snow-cream. Like I said, snow days are always welcome in my life.

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Amber Cason

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As I waited longingly to hear whether or not we would have school, the list of amazing things I would do if we were given a snow day just ran through my head: sledding, make hot cocoa and watch snow-related movies, face the winter storm and drive to target for some retail therapy, do all of the homework that I had piling up and so much more. Then, finally, the texts came ringing through, letting me know that all of our snow day dreams had come true.

"No school!"

"Time to turn up!"

"Get out of bed!"

So I ran down the halls of my house and got together with a few of my sisters, Libby, Kali and Madi, and we started planning all of the great ways we were going to spend our Sunday night and our snow day. Three hours later we were all laying on the couch in our pajamas talking, eating and laughing at the Oscars. There was no "turning up" or going to Target or even bothering to try to socialize with the outside world. We spent that night simply hanging out with one another and still had the best time, and the official snow day the next day was not so different. We woke up way too late, did not enough homework and spent the day in the same pajamas we were wearing the night before and it was great. I spent my snow day with my friends, boyfriend and my sisters, and I would not have had it any other way.

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Maurice Burns

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I love snow days. Any day that gives me a valid excuse to stay in the house and watch an entire season of a show on Netflix is OK with me. Unfortunately during our most recent snow day, I was unable to enjoy that luxury. Instead, I spent my snow day on a sloppy Interstate 55 driving back to Cape from St. Louis.

I decided to go back home to St. Louis for the weekend to celebrate Mardi Gras in Soulard, the second largest Mardi Gras celebration in the country. Normally being No. 2 is nothing I take pride in, but in this instance it didn't matter. I had an amazing time and felt both honored and privileged to have been a part of the festivities.

Due to the ice storms taking place both in St. Louis and Cape Girardeau, I decided it would be a good idea to wait until the next day to make the haul back. Since classes were cancelled I had time, which was good because I would need plenty of it. There were still slick spots on the road and all the drivers on the road, including myself were taking all precautions, so unfortunately I spent my entire snow day pretending I was on an episode of the History Channel's "Ice Road Truckers" as opposed to lying in my comfortable bed watching one.

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Daniel Eckert

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I was unfortunately sick for our most recent snow day, and while that's a bit sad, it's not much different from how I handled the nearly week-long snow days we had a few weeks back. I was asleep most of Monday because of my sickness, but on the week where I wasn't sick I was sleeping as well. I really love sleep, and I usually get a lot of it on off days and weekends. The mini-winter break was no exception. However, there were things I needed to leave home to do, but before I could do them I had to make one snow angel. I then proceeded to panic when my phone was covered in snow because of it. I loved to step into the areas where no one had touched the snow yet. It is really a fantastic feeling to be the first one to step on the snow, as if it were a new land to be seen and discovered.

I had to go out the Sunday before our snow day to get some dinner and the parking lot stairs at Cheney were absolutely covered in ice. I slid down them, and it was a wild ride for the first five seconds. After that I had gone off kilter and had a bumpy ride the rest of the way down. I found it absolutely hilarious that even though I hit the stairs, they were so icy and slick that it didn't stop my momentum at all. I landed in the snow and was fine, but I was laughing like a mad man.

I haven't liked how much snow we've had and the most recent fall has literally kept my professor from her class because the weather has her stuck in Arkansas, but they are great opportunities to rekindle that inner child mentality. Go out there, have a bit of fun, even if it doesn't go according to plan.

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Madison Boemecke

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I think it is safe to say that Southeast Missouri State University has had its fair share of winter weather this season.

Because of the abundance of snow days that SEMO has had in the past couple months, I pretty much have a regular snow day schedule down to a T. Living on campus is really limiting considering every sidewalk and parking lot is iced over, so I tend to stay inside as much as possible.

I first start out by sleeping in till at least noon in order to catch up on some much needed sleep. Second, I put on my snowboots and cozy winter jacket to make a risky journey down to Towers Cafe for a lovely brunch. After a breakfast of champions, I snuggle back up in my bed for an all-day Netflix marathon. It doesn't get much better than that folks.

SEMO is no stranger to the snowpocalypse this winter, but let's all hope we've seen the last of this brutal weather.