This photo of Douglass Houghton Hall was taken on Friday, December 10, after our first sticking snowfall. Other campus photos taken that day are on the Alumni Digital Tech Web page. Well, if your students haven't clued you in yet, we woke up to five inches of snow Friday morning.
Campus is beautiful when the first snow falls.
I feel as if I am in a fairy tale as everything is white, including the ground I'm walking on. In the morning, the view of campus is romanticized with the snow-blanketed campus and evening lights still on. Your students may be trimming their own trees in the dorms to make their rooms feel a little like home. I suggest you encourage this for the more homesick student around the holidays, since vacation begins a couple days before Christmas and they probably missed or will miss out this year on many of the family decorating traditions. Your student will not slack in their studies, which is very important with the interruptions of Christmas break and Winter Carnival in winter quarter.