It's hard to complain about nice weather. Take yesterday, for example. Students lounge in the sun, posing with their books while enjoying the feeling of sunglasses on their faces.
Instead of the bad weather, (cold, rain, the possibilities seem endless these days), students discuss something of more value -- their ridiculous work load, for example.
But it might be a good idea to revisit some of those previous conversations on the bad weather. Try within the next few days.
If this week's weather forecast plays out, the University might experience what weather reporters are calling a Class 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
They call her Isabel.
Although Isabel has dominated much of local weather news, she has yet to intimidate University students.
Enveloped in the comfortable bubble of University life, students feel protected and safe. Their most pressing threat is the upcoming exam.
First-year Engineering student Navid Rahimi calmly discusses the high possibility of an Engineering class being cancelled for Thursday.
"My teacher has a gut feeling that classes will cancel," he says. "Am I worried? No, I'm actually happy that there won't be classes. It will be fun."
Third-year College student Tyler Scriven is equally nonchalant about the upcoming hurricane. He cited his calm, however, to past experiences with hurricanes.
"I've never been in an actual hurricane. I've evacuated from hurricanes and been in tropical storms," Scriven said. "It's kind of hard to be in a hurricane unless you're crazy -- or have no choice."
Scriven, though, did have a choice, in the three or four times he evacuated his home in Jacksonville, Fla. to travel to safer regions in the state. On one occasion, Scriven said he and his family were forced to travel to Tallahassee -- usuallya two-hour trip which took close to 10 hours because of the evacuation rush.
"It can be fun -- you get out of school," Scriven said. "It's almost like going on vacation."
Scriven said he is looking forward to getting a day off (his plans tomorrow included taking a test) only because he believes Isabel is not a serious threat.
"If we were in Florida, this type of storm wouldn't even close things down," he said. "But I guess that makes sense -- it's about what people are used to."Rahimi echoed Scriven's doubts about the storm's seriousness. His reasoning was a little simpler than Scriven's critique on storms.
The school "is safe because it's bricks," Rahimi said. "Everything's made out of bricks."
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