There is a God... (Part II)

And he's laughing at me. He answered the prayers of all of the 30,000-ish NC State students and faculty - it snowed today. And it was beautiful! I love snow, and I plan on having at least one of my future homes be somewhere up north - Maine, or maybe Connecticut - along the coast somewhere up there, so I can have plenty of snow to play in and look at. That aside, there was plenty of snow this morning. We had our blinds drawn closed this morning, and the first thing I did upon shutting-off my alarm was to peek through the blinds. I was met with a wondrous view of white. I said something along the lines of God or Damn or some other expletive. I then went to my computer and checked my desktop weather and this is what the radar showed. For once, Raleigh was in the white - way way in the white! I was so excited! I quickly threw on my PE sweats and my multiple layers of socks, grabbed my camera, and headed out to snap a few pictures. It was still snowing as I took the pictures and it was so beautiful. Like being inside of a dream... I stood out on the breezeway for a few minutes, snapping pictures, and then staring at all the funny, bundled up people walking by, trying not to slip in the compacted slush. It was then that I decided to check the NC State homepage to see if classes were canceled, or at the very least, if the Adverse Weather Policy had been implemented. Why did I bother? NC State has proven to me again that it doesn't give a damn about its students or faculty. If there is ice on the sidewalks, is it really safe to walk to class? If there is ice on the roadways, is it really safe to drive to campus? No. And yet the powers-that-be here at state decided that the faculty and the 15,000 or so students that commute to school everyday would be just fine and dandy driving in hazardous conditions. That's what I meant when I said God was laughing at me. He's laughing at all of us NC State students because he gave us what we said we wanted - snow - but he denied us what we really wanted - a day off from class. Meredith, which is within walking distance and has at most one-tenth of NC State's population was closed for the day. So was NCCU. What the hell is my school's problem?!? So, in the rapidly falling snow, Callie and I trudged to class, griping and groaning just like everyone else who had to slip on the sidewalks. And then later on today, when the snow became rain, and large puddles of icy water formed, some assholes thought it would be fun to throw a bunch of snow balls from their tenth-story windows into the puddles so that they could splash icy water and snow on the unsuspecting passersby [i.e. me]. That meant that I had to take my chemistry exam [which I thought was a joke, by the way] shivering in my sopping wet jeans. But now all I have to do is homework, which should be a breeze, so let's to it do it.