10 Ways to Prepare for Winter Weather

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5. Warm up: Make sure you bundle up in your warmest clothes. Be smart. Wear gloves, a scarf, and a hat. Even if the temperatures aren't freezing, those snow balls that will be flying will be.

4. Have fun: Speaking of snow balls...don't let the potential snow day slip by without some fun! Get a group together to play in the snow or build a snow man and make snow angels. The snow doesn't come often or stay long around here. Make the most of it!

3. Stay healthy: Even if you are in great health, the cold weather always seems to bring that runny nose which can easily lead to a cold, the flu, and so on. So be smart. Keep some antibacterial gel near by and use it often! At very least, you are saving others from having to put up with your germs.

2. Watch the weather: Keep in the know. Don't take other people's word for it when it comes to something as unpredictable as the weather. Try to keep up with any updates posted on the news website. This will ensure that you aren't hit with any major surprises.

1. Enjoy: Finally, just love it! Take time to look at the beauty of the falling snow. Savor the joy among your peers as the snow covers the town. If you are anything like me, you can enjoy the gift of a snow day just fine by cuddling up with a blanket for a while and watching the snow fall from the comfort of your own couch.

Top 10 Student Complaints About ASU

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5. Food variety/quality: Students have complained that the quality and variety of the cafeteria food in Acansa Dining Hall, even at the beginning of the semester, is unsatisfactory. With continued themes of the same old pasta, meat and potatoes, or just the usual salad bar, there is not much variety after a couple of weeks of getting use to the food.

4. Book prices: We are paying a high tuition and this payment is covering our education and our education is coming from these necessary textbooks, however the payment for the textbooks is not covered by our tuition. This seems like an outrage! What is our tuition actually paying for?

3. Fire Alarms: Last semester, a resident of NPQ was diagnosed with a perforated ear drum as a result of multiple fire alarms sounding so loudly. The volume of these alarms was already unbarable, come to find out that the alarms have been altered and increased in volume and sound for the spring semester. How can they increase this when the old sound was already a problem?

2. Supplies: According to frequent visitors of the campus store and Starbucks in the student union, the fulfillment of supplies is unaccepetable. Students say that these establishments are ofen out of key supplies on a daily, or even weekly, basis. Causing much student frustration, buyers are less motivated to visit the stores at all for their usual on-campus needs.

1. Installment fee: For students paying off their student debt, an instalment plan can be put into place. This is suppose to be to help students' ability to pay off their financial aid in regular installments. A problem is that there is a fee to set up this plan. It does not seem to make sense to ask already poor students to give up more of their money simply in order to give their first paymetns at all.