Snow day.

Admit it. You were thinking about it, wishing for it, hoping for it. What’s the use of a 24-inch onslaught of snow if you aren’t going to get any time off for it? Students in dorm rooms across campus were holding out, calling information lines and checking Web sites. But as we all know, we were not blessed in such a way.

So, sluggish college students crawled out of their dorm room beds and off to class, through narrowly shoveled sidewalks and down icy staircases.

For those of us who live on campus, the inconvenience was minimal. But this university, trying to dump the wide-spread image of a commuter school, still inevitably had to deal with the fact that some students had to come from all parts of the state to school Monday morning. As we know, roads were not plowed nearly well enough and, despite forking over hundreds of dollars, a space was not guaranteed to you, as the outside lots were covered with snow.

A report in the Boston Globe Tuesday found that Commissioner Joseph Casazza of Boston waited until 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon, after 8-inches of snow had already fallen, to deploy the full arsenal of plows. What a mess this created. It’s almost three full days after the end of the snowfall and the roads are still full with snow and slush.

Knowing all this, Northeastern handled things moderately well. Semi-clear paths were plowed for students to walk through. However, where was the cancellation or delay on the behalf of those commuter students? Forcing students to drive through unsafe roads (obviously deemed unsafe based on the fact all Boston Public Schools were canceled) was insensitive on the part of the university.

The situation for disabled and handicapped students couldn’t have been any easier. It was hard enough to traverse the campus for those without a disability, so how were those with one expected to function properly? The paths carved out were icy, slushy and wet — not ideal for maneuvering with a wheelchair, crutches or other impediments.

Also, because of the increasing obsession with aesthetics the university has every time it erects a new building, problems inevitably arise. For example, whose bright architectural idea was it to have a Rocky-quality staircase in front of West Campus E be the only way in? And bricks, bricks, everywhere. Bricks are great for plows … wait, no, no they aren’t.

Weighing all the factors, the university put together a school day that was less than stellar for most. Considering the state of the city, asking students to travel in at the consequence of missing a class was ultimately an unfair burden.

When facing a campus dumped with more than 20 inches of snow, many factors should be weighed. It seems the university was more concerned with the interests of few, as opposed with the interests of many.