Oh, winter is here, okay, thought it wasn't coming

Ever since Worcester got slammed with snow and ice just before Halloween, 2011 was pretty mild. In fact, the month of November felt warmer than October, and by the time I went home at the end of the semester, we didn't have any snow in the 01610.

But about a week into the New Year, we finally got a few inches of snow.

A view of the JC (left) and the AC (right) from Atwood Hall.

And over the past few days, we got a couple inches of snow and ice in small increments.

A view of the AC on Sunday morning.

This snow follows a string of extremely cold days in Worcester, with temperatures in the single digits and teens.

So when I thought winter wasn't coming around this season, I was definitely wrong.

The Zen Garden looks like a mini snow bowl.

Campus is now covered in snow, but we're still well behind the amount of snow we got last year.

But I'm okay with that. Cars have already been struggling to make it up the lame excuse of a hill my road is on due to the snow and ice. I'm pretty sure one of these days a car is going to careen into another, because everyone seems to think it's a great idea to simply floor it when they lack traction on the ice.

While we may get a few warm days in this coming week, we may get two doses of freezing ran. That's something I really don't look forward to.

(Tuesday the 24th update: it rained last night and was in the upper 40's today. All of the snow not piled up is gone. Ha! New England weather!)