A wintry mix of good news and bad

What a Groundhog Day we’re having!

Let me start with our bad news: Mother Nature has trumped Admissions Office planning.  Winter Storm “Linus” is due to leave us with a new foot of snow, and Tufts University is closed for the day.  Before we received the snow-day notice, we were planning to greet a group of visiting students who were admitted in the Early Notification Admissions round.  Several changed their travel plans as the storm worked its way over Chicago and the midwest, but a few are in town.  We’re working to connect them with students so that they can still leave town with an expanded knowledge of Fletcher.  (BIG thank you to the students who have set aside their cups of snow-day cocoa to meet the visitors!)

Sigh.  The best laid plans, and all of that…

On the good news side, the New England Patriots brought some pre-snow joy to their fans by winning the Super Bowl.  Not being much of a football fan myself, I still watched enough of the game to be able to hold up my end of the conversations around the water cooler.  I hope I’ll still be able to have those conversations tomorrow when we’re back in the office.

And I might as well make some kind of observation about the weather.  Though I’m a transplanted New Yorker, I’ve lived in the Boston area for a long time.  Our yearly experience with snow ranges from none to quite a bit.  The average annual snowfall is about 43 inches/year, usually spread between November and March.  We can count on a storm or two during a year, but the past week has been very unusual.  There are much snowier parts of the U.S.  It just doesn’t feel that way today.