By Joe Bridgeman

My dream is to one day have a snow day. I grew up in Salt Lake City, and as such, I have never had a snow day. My hometown gets a lot of snow during the winter, but because it was a normal thing, it was never an occasion to cancel school or shut down anything.

Down here in Waco, Texas, it’s different. It does not snow here. Ice shuts down everything. Some professors commute an hour or two from Dallas/Fort Worth to campus. Off-campus students also have to drive to school. Icy roads means that the trip to Baylor each school day suddenly gets a lot more dangerous for a multitude of people, so canceling school for the day is a valid option when this happens.

A few days ago in the early evening, it started snowing.  It started as a light rain coupled with 30 degree temperatures and a harsh wind. Then as the sun continued to set, the light rain became little balls of hail.  Then the little balls of hail became snow flurries, and by dinnertime, it was just flat out snowing.  We were ecstatic. A roommate of mine had never even seen snow before! We went to sleep smiling and dreaming about all the fun things we would do the next day when school was inevitably canceled. And then, this email comes waltzing into our inboxes at 5:52am: “University Open Today”. Sad face. I may still have to go to class, but I’ll be humming a few Christmas songs throughout the day just hoping for that one snow day to come along.