By NICOLE DANZI
STAFF WRITER
Rutgers sophomore Kunal Patel frustratingly sifted through his drawers again, like he had every other day that week, trying to find something to wear.
The spring weather had been such a rollercoaster of late; he didn’t know the right outfit to wear. If he didn’t choose quickly, he was going to be late to class.
“The constant shift in temperature from cold to warm, to hot to warm, to cold throughout the entire day, is annoying,” said Patel. “Even if I dress in layers, the shifts always make me feel too hot or cold and I end up sweating and feeling gross.”
Patel isn’t the only student at Rutgers who is not excited by the change of seasons. For most students, there is no spring fever this year.
Last week, started with an unseasonably warm day, with temperatures approaching almost 80 degrees. But just when it seemed like spring was here to stay, the cold and rain returned the very next day.
Temperatures barely reached the mid-50s, more than a 20 degree plummet from the day before. Students were back to wearing heavy jackets and Ugg boots, attire usually seen during the winter.
This see-saw of temperatures has really taken a toll on students’ bodies. Classes are filled with sneezing, sniffling, coughing students, who are constantly pulling out tissues or stepping out of the room to get a drink of water.
Junior Alexandra Hausner has had enough of these dramatic shifts in temperatures. Hausner said she doesn’t know how much more her body can take. She said she just wants the warmth to come, and when it does, for it to actually stay.
“It’s frustrating” said Hausner. “I get sick so easily. When the weather doesn’t know what it’s doing, neither does my body.”
Students are wondering whether spring has even arrived at all. Trees are still bare, most flowers have yet to bloom and it seems the skies have been a constant blanket of clouds.
Everything should be alive and greener walking around campus this time of year, but Patel said that most trees are still naked and there are no flowers, except for a few buds he sees here and there.
“Everything is just half-dead and half-alive in a non-beautiful way,” he said. Sophomore Jessica Rodriguez usually loves the spring time.
The weather is not too cold or hot, making it the perfect temperature to be outside, she said. Rodriguez remembers being outside all the time last spring.
She said that nobody wanted to study or go to class because it was just too nice to sit inside, a typical feeling among students towards the end of the spring semester.
But that itch to skip class and be outside hasn’t really been a problem so far this spring, and there are only two weeks left in the semester.
The constant wind, rain, and cold have Rodriguez and others hating the spring. “The rain is just ridiculous,” she said. “This year it is so terrible. We are like hermits.” |
