My First All Nighter

As I sit here typing this blog I am in the process of completing my first all nighter of my Southern Methodist career. I always heard of peers talking about how they stayed up all night studying but I never thought I'd be one of them. Do you know how much work you can do in those 7-10 hours of sleep? However, it was the most productive night of my semester so far and it was more than necessary. I almost don't feel like I have really started classes yet this semester because my most consuming priority is pledgeship and school has not only taken a back seat but it had to go to the back of the bus.

I never prepared myself be for school started at the beginning of the year, I came down and had plenty of time during rush week to get by binders all made up, print off my schedule, pick up my books and locate my classes. However, by the time the first day of school rolled around I had yet to accomplish any of those. I printed off my schedule that morning and grabbed some random binders I had laying around from last semester and headed off to my former first priority.

Tonight, I was able to accomplish all that stuff I had meant to earlier. I had homework to do for the first part of the night but then I just decided I'd take the opportunity to get my life organized. I whipped out the three hole punch and put all those loose papers in my binders, I cleaned my room and did laundry. Then I made a semester at a glance calender and filled out all of my tests and quizzes so that I don't show up to class and remember that quiz I didn't study for.

This might just sound like a sob story but that's not the intention. I knew exactly what I signed up for when deciding to pledge a fraternity. It's remarkable how once you're in the zone you can just keep powering through and end up a week or at least a few days ahead in all of your classes. I'm not sure that it would be my first recommendation to stay up all night to get a few days ahead but if your life is really cluttered and disorganized I would advise tackling that problem before it swells to the size where an all nighter is necessary. Hopefully, the progress I made tonight is not negated by the sluggish day to come until I can return my sleep pattern to normal. Have you ever stayed up all night and then by about 12 the next day regretted that decision?

Snow Day

Students at Southern Methodist loving playing in the snow. This statement is often said in reference to the amount of cocaine that is present on our campus but after thursday it's apparent that SMU students truly do love playing in the snow. While walking to my 12:30 class I watched the boulevard be turned into a massive field of snowmen, football and snowball fights. It's not everyday that Dallas gets enough snow to close down school and students took full advantage of it. I'm not sure what it is about snow that makes it so enjoyable but it seems to put everyone in a better mood.

Spirits were high even as random people threw snowballs at others. A group of students pelted everyone walking though the quad and carrying an umbrella. In one clip someone shouts "umbrellas are for rain." I think its incredible how the school came together to enjoy a rare event. Hopefully it will happen more frequently. There was a massive snowball fight in sorority park as well, and as cold as it was without gloves on it didn't even phase me because of how much fun I was having.

Needless to say, I was relieved when I checked my phone and saw the email announcing school being closed for the day. And yet I was equally surprised, I would never have guessed that I would have a snow day in college, much less here in Dallas. According to the DFW airport they got 12.5 inches in a 24 hour period, a new record for Dallas. I have a hard time believing we got that much snow here on campus but it's possible that people were building snowmen and throwing snowballs faster than it could accumulate. Regardless, there was plenty of snow to go around and it was a pretty wet snow making it primo-packing snow. It couldn't have come at a better time. I have been so busy with pledgeship that I haven't really had time for a nice relaxing day and that's just what Friday was. Feel free to share any of your own snow day stories.