Winter Wonderland

It is quite amusing to see the variety in the student body as students flood back to campus.  Every day I observe students to whom I would grant the "Excessively bundled for how cold it really is outside" award.  To my amusement, there are multitudes of contestants, thousands of honorable mentions, and hundreds of grand prize winners.  Some students look as though they are prepared to spend an extended visit in the arctic tundra, and they probably could.  I have a personal testimony of the cold weather nipping at my nose and ears but find it is much more endurable if one adapts to the cold weather instead of trying to fight a constant battle with it.  I thoroughly enjoy the cold weather and find that I rather enjoy taking time to “chill out” after a long day in a classroom seat that has residual heat from whoever has a rear end that radiates heat like a brick oven and sat in my seat right before me.  I particularly enjoy that the crisp air outside keeps my body cool throughout the day.  This way, I don’t get sticky with sweat and feel smelly by the end of a long day.