Same girl, different season...

I'm probably not the only one in a slump getting into the Winter semester so I thought I'd express the top 5 reasons why the winter semester sucks. Feel free to add your own suggestions if you have any.

5. No Football. Let’s face it, this is the University of Michigan. A lot of people probably wished the season had ended sooner, but no football means no pre-games. It also forces conversation about the other sports such as basketball, hockey and baseball, which far fewer people care about. At least basketball is in NCAA tournament contention this season.

4. No Welcome Week/ Rush. For winter semester, you just show up and class is the next day. There is no weeklong party to get hyped up for the school year. You don’t see anyone you hadn’t seen more than a month ago. Winter rush brings nothing special for anyone not rushing.

3. Everyone else went abroad. This goes out to my fellow Juniors still in AA. For whatever reason, academic, financial, etc. we are still here and it seems that everyone else is living it up in Australia or Spain.

2. The Weather. Walking to class at 9 in the morning can be fatal. Cabs can wear on your wallet. You can’t wander around hoping to find someplace to drop in on-- you either know where you’re going or staying home. Don’t even try a block party (Greenwood).

1. Sweatshirts. Only true beauties can pull it off, so I give credit where it is due when one manages to look attractive in a sweatshirt. Every guy has to wait all winter long for that one random day in February where the temperature hits 65 and all the tank tops pop out of the closet-- it’s practically a national holiday. But then it snows for another 2 months and the sweatshirts come back.