      Like many other Californians that chose not to go to school in the sunny West Coast, I decided to venture out to Ohio because I wanted to experience real seasons whilst in college. But guys…what happened to Fall? Call me crazy, but I feel like I was happily wearing dresses and shorts and enjoying some sun, and then was just smacked with gray clouds and wind, and it totally caught me off guard. And, to kick a horse when it’s down, my roommate informed me that it’s just going to get much colder.
      As a Los Angeles native, I have a lot of feelings about what’s happening. I’ve never been in weather colder than maybe forty degrees, and already the walk from McBride to Peirce is getting too cold to handle. So without further ado, here are a couple reactions I’ve had to the weather.
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           Wow, that first day I experienced rain in Gambier was an exciting one. I broke out my rain jacket, rain boots, and my friends laughed at me as I skipped down middle path relishing the little drops falling from the sky. California is in a drought, okay? Rain is a fun thing to experience.
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      I check the weather on my phone every night before I go to bed so I have a sense of what I’ll have to wear the next day. So the first time I saw a little cloud picture and that the highest weather would probably be like sixty degrees…I was shocked.
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           And the next day was the same! To be fair, we do have cold days in Los Angeles, but that’s the thing…they’re cold days. It’ll be cloudy and we’ll all break out our puffy jackets and be overdramatic, but it’s fun because we know that come the next day, we’ll be fine wearing a thinner layer. But the cold weather continued, throughout the entire week.
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           Very quickly it stopped being exciting when I realized oh wow, cold is coming and I have maybe two jackets here. Every day became very exciting as I looked at my closet, then looked outside, and tried to figure out a way I could stay warm without wearing every single sweater in my drawer.
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           But I knew I wanted to leave California for a reason, and I’m ready to embrace the cold! And as my fellow Her Campus gals have informed me, it’s only going to get colder. So with a hot chocolate in one hand and gloves on the other, I will somehow make it through these cold seasons, mark my words!Â
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