‘Twas the night before a potential snow day, when all through the house news stations were blaring, my iMessage was buzzing and my nerves were tingling. All of these events occurring because a news reporter claimed a huge snow storm was on its way.

My iPhone will not stop vibrating from multiple group messages blowing up with my friends reminding me what all the snow day tricks are. And of course one must follow these rules or there will be no snow day.

How could I not remember to wear my pajamas inside out? Or put my last, perfectly good orange in the freezer? I must remember to put a spoon under my pillow, and who could forget flushing pounds of ice down the toilet?

However, the morning after watching all my ice go down the toilet, I find myself drowsily getting up for school. None of the tricks worked. Again.

If only my fellow students would stop getting my hopes up about snow days. Please do not remind me about me how great it will be to have that math quiz pushed off another day, or how we could actually get more than six hours of sleep. Please do not enthusiastically explain how I could spend the day sledding or bundled up under a warm, soft blanket watching a whole season of Gossip Girl.

Most of all, please do not remind me how awful it would be to have to come to school instead. I get too excited for a day I know will never come because we belong to KSD, and we always end up roughing it through blizzards and below zero temperatures.

I love snow days as much as the next high schooler, but being disappointed again and again by not having them makes me depressed to be a public school student. Sitting in class the next day feeling miserable is not my cup of hot chocolate. So please, students of KHS, if you wouldn’t mind keeping all of your snow day excitement to yourself and not getting my hopes up, it would be much appreciated.