Katie Oram's blog

We are just about 2 weeks from graduation and everyone has different thoughts about it. Some are in denial that it is happening and are trying to move back into their freshman dorms to repeat the four years again. Some have had their bags packed since November and will have their cars idling during the graduation ceremony. I think there are also a couple of us (myself included) who feel somewhat in between. I'm won't be ready to just jump in the car right after graduation, speed off to the next thing in life, leaving St. Lawrence in the past.

The Climate Action Plan (CAP) is St. Lawrence's commitment to reach carbon neutrality by 2040. The plan was drafted by faculty, staff and students and has been circulated around school this semester. It has been preliminarily passed once by the board of trustees, but they are meeting again in May to make the final decision.

This week at SLU is the first official Bee Week (sponsored by the greenhouse). One of our house members, Lizzie, attended a national bee conference in Texas over spring break. In order to incorporate what she learned at this conference with the current issues surrounding our worlds pollinators, we put on a Bee Week to raise awareness! Bee Week started with a 'Bee Aware' dinner at Dana where we put little labels on all of the food that was pollinated by bees - which is most of the food we eat. We also hung up posters all around with more bee facts.

Although it's bluebird skies and 60 degrees in Canton these day, the Adirondacks still have many feet of snow. This Saturday I heard friends claiming the day 'summer dress day,' but I was not wearing a summer dress that day. Instead I put my ski boots back on and headed to the high peaks with Alex.

We are among the first days of spring and we just got back from spring break. I'm in the home stretch until graduation, what is it - 7, 8 weeks..? Everyone is asking that question... it comes in many forms, but all of you other seniors out there know exactly what I am talking about. You often hear...

Last week it was raining and we could see grass all over campus, it snowed 5 inches yesterday and a couple more overnight, winter is back with a fight. great news. I'm feeling a lack of creative inertia this morning - for a couple reasons I will detail in the following.

This weekend was a weekend. A wintery and adventurous weekend. Thursday night the snow started falling and continued through most of the day Friday - accumulating to a foot in the High Peaks of the Adirondacks. After class friday and wrapping up the academic weekend, a bunch of us headed to Tupper Lake for the night. Saturday morning we headed to the Adirondack Loj with the intentions of skinning up Phelps Mt. to ski down. We made the 2 miles to Marcy Dam and came to a group decision to, as my friend cam said "huck" Marcy.

Last week we got hammered with snow up here at SLU. Everyone's car are getting stuck in the parking lots and it seemed impossible to plow any of the student parking lots. Finally facilities had everyone move their cars to another lot and plowed all of the student parking lots. At my house on Park Street there is a now a huge mound of snow behind our house, all of the snow plowed from the lot is now a mountain behind our house. 

Snow is the title of this blog because we have so much of it. I'm not just saying that because it's winter and this and that, but we have so much snow. Currently on campus right now one could cross country skiing all of the paths, build a snow staircase up to a second story dorm room, have a massive snow ball fight, make enough quinzhee's for the freshman class to sleep-in and always have the possibility of being plummeted with snow from any building at any time.