The saga of winter semester

I have found that winter semester is the most difficult to attend. It is cold and often snowy and all I want to do is stay in my house and stay warm. Then there is the added stress of paying for school. I just spent tons of money on Christmas and now I have to pay hundreds of dollars to sit in class when I would much rather be curled up in front of my fireplace reading a good book. There is nothing wrong with school, it is great to learn new things and better who I am but who wants to get up and go to school when it is pitch black outside. Then there is work, I have to work nearly thirty hours a week just to support myself through school and there is never any money left to spend on entertainment. Why is it that we go through all this schooling when much of it is unnecessary. The classes required for my major are great and I am learning the required skills for my future but the general ed classes are seriously a joke. The worst grade that I have acquired in all my college years was in a general ed class that I will most likely never use. Another frustrating issue is exercise as I am very poor I cannot afford a gym pass and run outdoors to stay in shape. This semester I have been seriously slacking in this endeavor. I get up but it is so cold outside that I freeze just thinking about running. When I do get out and run as fate would have it I slip and fall on the ice preventing running for at least a week. To make matters worse I am sick of my wardrobe but all the winter cloths are now either too small or to large because they have been on clearance since after Christmas but it is too cold to buy and wear any of the new spring lines that are now available. In Utah winter can continue until April or even sometimes May, I will have to wear the same boring winter clothes until the end of the semester. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel call graduation. One day (at the end of April) I will finish this long, cold, eighteen credit semester and graduate to move on to new and exciting paths. I will have learned the skills that will help me in my career, well some of them. It will be a glorious day and hopefully a warm day.