Waking up at the crack of dawn doesn’t seem to tickle anyone’s fancy. Imagine doing this before the birds have started to chirp or before the sun has waken up from its siesta. Welcome to winter quarter.

You, the lovely students of the NU student body have voted this the worst quarter to be on campus, and I couldn’t agree more. Some people who are not familiar with the fickle Northeast weather may enjoy the small innocent snowflakes that fall from the sky. These individual pieces of heaven create a winter wonderland. However, those of us who have been in this region for a better part of our lives realize that these vicious demons tend to accumulate and make a massive mess that comes in the form of blizzards and Nor’easters.

This year we have experienced two snow days, which closed down the university, but left the Marino Center open for us to frolic and run about in. Yeah! One of the days was so treacherous that it even closed down Snell Library.

Whether you’re on co-op or in classes, winter is indeed the worst time to be at NU. There’s no way around it. No one wants to get up in the morning and head off to an exciting eight hours of work at their place of employment. There isn’t anyone I know who wants to rise from the comfort of their bed to go to an 8 a.m. class, where a teacher drones on for an hour and five minutes.

The chose was yours and you made the right one, winter is the worst quarter to be on campus.

— Camila Crews