OPINION: It's Too Cold Outside, I Don't Want To Go To Class
William Grayson - November 29, 2023 - academics
Despite paying tens of thousands of dollars for the ability to attend classes at the University of Virginia, it is too damn cold outside for me to attend today. With temperatures below 25 degrees outside last night, I am simply freezing my ass off walking around grounds today.
Who’s to blame? Certainly not the oil and gas companies responsible for global warming — they’re doing their part to warm up Charlottesville in the winter. Partially my landlord, who hasn’t fixed my heating unit even though I called in a maintenance request before Halloween. But mostly my “warm-blooded” body’s failure to not freeze to death within 5 minutes of walking along JPA in anything below 40 degrees.
Unfortunately, weather forecasts indicate that the weather will only get colder — an unfortunate trend that seems to happen every winter. I will simply hold out and refuse to go to class until the sun obliges and emits more heat.