The beginning of the spring semester does not depict the actual season of spring in the slightest. This second semester begins in January, a cold and frigid month that truly pushes students to their limits and tests their abilities to fight off frostbite. The Saint Joe’s winter experience is one that every hawk knows too well:
When walking through campus to class, passing Villiger can pose a threat. The Villiger wind tunnel is a real thing and it inflicts windburn upon its victims.
If you live by the train station then you know the struggle of trekking up and down City Avenue way too well. Hats, scarves, and gloves are a major essential during this time of year because without them you will surely freeze on the street that we have all come to love.
Everyone hits up Starbucks in need of their hot beverage fix.
Snowdays, we all love them, we all yearn for them, but for some reason mother nature still seems to never give us enough of them. Waking up to canceled classes is Christmas morning in the college world.
Heating in on campus housing is unpredictable and a little extreme at times causing many residents to find themselves lounging around their rooms in shorts and a t-shirt attempting to understand the mechanics of the radiator and second guessing their outfit choices.
Layers, layers, and more layers. That is the only way a hawk on Hawk Hill will survive the winter of 2016.
Stay warm hawks.
HCXO,
Mary