Sunlight!

Today is the first day in a while that the sun has come out in Chicago.

After 4 years of relatively temperate winters at Princeton, I got used to just wearing a light jacket in February. But Chicago's weather is of an entirely different magnitude.*

Apparently this has been an easy winter but I have a hard time imagining what a difficult winter would look like...

One of my mentors, Peter Freeman, gave me some great advice for surviving the winter: Get out! Never one to pass up the wisdom of my elders, I'll be traveling to California to visit some friends in early March, the perfect way to get over S.A.D.


* It should be noted that I hate cold weather and that there are plenty of people who don't mind the weather here at all.