5 Stages Of Having A Snow Day

It’s that time of year when we all patiently wait for it to snow again and thus, giving us the hopes that we will have a snow day.

Here are the five stage of having a snow day.

1) Anticipation

Whether it started snowing the night before or you wake up to see that it is a white mess outside, your thoughts automatically go to hoping classes will get canceled. You check your email every five minutes waiting for that notification that will free you from life’s obligations for that day.

The bullshit reasons start to cloud our minds, such as:

Universities can’t make us go to class if the weather is “hazardous” right? We could die out there! Slip on the ice! Get trampled from the snow that falls off of a building! … and so on.

Anyway, no professor wants to go teach a class to a bunch of students complaining about how awful it was to get to class (that is if they showed up to begin with). We still sort of half force ourselves to get ready because sometimes colleges hate us and think snow is no reason to cancel classes.

2) Excitement

The email is finally here (or you see someone else on social media telling you there it is)! Classes are cancelled due to severe weather or in other words, SNOW DAY!!! You can sleep in! Stay in your PJs all day! Tell social media how pumped you are for having a snow day!

Sure, living in a state that doesn’t stay warm after summer may have its downsides (freezing to death would be at the top of that list), but on days like today, you can’t help but be glad you don’t live in Florida. It’s such a great feeling when your schedule gets interrupted with a snow day because doing the same thing every week can get a bit boring.

Whether you are in elementary school or college, you will always get the same childish reaction to school being cancelled.

3) The Promise

After your excitement dies down, you begin to realize that you have been given a full 24 hours of no commitments. Your work board will taunt you with its list of things you have due soon and since you got to sleep in, you don’t feel like a dead zombie so you could actually be productive today.

Now comes the promise. The promise that you will not procrastinate and will use this snow day to catch up on work you’ve been avoiding. If you do work today, you won’t have to pull as many all-nighters.

4) Procrastination

But then you think, oh well I don’t need to spend ALL day working. I can do it later and binge watch a Netflix show I’ve wanted to watch since this morning. Also, all your friends are going to go play in the snow and you don’t want to be left out of potentially good Instagram photos.

You tell yourself you will start working as soon as you get back but when you do you are tired so you take a break from your break to snuggle up on the couch with some hot cocoa. Soon enough, you realize that your “productive” snow day has turned into a “literally do anything but work” day.

5) Guilt

Your to-do list is not any shorter and you feel guilty for wasting a whole day not doing anything important. Now you have nothing better to do but hope you have another snow day soon. Then you promise you will use it to finish work!