By Paul Moosmann

For those of us who’ve lived in or around Maine our whole lives, a snow day here and a cancellation there during the winter is nothing new. This year, however, Mother Nature did not hold back in the least, causing one snow day after another.

I, for one, lost eight individual classes over the past few weeks. That is quite an insane number of consecutive cancellations, especially when you consider we’re only in mid-February.

As a kid, I would always hope for the maximum number of snow days possible every winter. I’ll be honest: there is still a part of me that holds that childish desire for a day off where I can play in the snow.

Of course, now, instead of school being something free that I have no choice but to attend, I’m paying for an education I want. Missing so many days has also messed with my daily routine, since there were so many days when I could sleep in.

There isn’t much that can be done to catch up on schoolwork at times like this. All of my professors are having to compress lesson plans or even omit certain assignments to save a bit of time. One saving grace is Blackboard. Most of my professors use and update Blackboard regularly, and when the lesson plan changes, I can always refer to it to know exactly what work needs to done.