The weather is colder, the night comes earlier, the leaves have fallen…it is now December and unfortunately, it is what I consider to be winter. Winter can be appealing to some and may even be the favorite season of a small, select group of unique individuals. However, for me, it is most appealing when I am looking out at the snow wrapped in a blanket from the comfort of my heated home. Don’t get me wrong, December has a lot of promising things to offer: the end of the semester, a month off from school, my birthday, and Christmas. It does, however, have a lot of uninviting characteristics such as the cramming of work before the semester ends, the nightmare of finals week, and the gruesomely cold weather.
I don’t know what’s worse: having to leave the comfort of my bed and being uncomfortably cold on the walk to my 9 AM chemistry class or studying for finals. Yes, there are a lot of classes to study for, let alone an entire semester’s worth of material and I may not know where to start, but at least I can do it someplace nice… someplace indoors.
So that brings me to my question: When can I bring out my puffy, warm, protecting coat that is taking up way too much closet space not to be of daily use? Or one of my many scarves that I had to sacrifice packing space for? If I am cold, I should be able to wear whatever kind of coat, no matter how big, whenever I want. Am I supposed to suffer through the harsh wind chill and low temperature of 4 degrees Celsius as I walk back from lab at 8:30 at night just because it isn’t considered cold enough?
I know, I know. “Just wait, it gets worse.” It gets a lot worse which is why the use of parkas in early December is looked down upon. If I bring out my jacket now, people will assume I am from the South or California and once they ask and realize that I am not, they will see me as a fellow, weak Northeasterner which is definitely not acceptable.
In all honesty, I’m not exactly sure when the right time to sport your biggest coat to class is (if you thought I was going to answer that question in this article, I apologize), but all I know is, the first week of December is not it. So until then, my fingers will freeze, my ears will grow cold, and my body will become numb. All until one, brave individual makes the decision that today is the moment we have been waiting for. So, who’s it going to be?
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