Julia Liu ’26
Director of Design


OPERATION: SURVIVE WINTER

At last, the last of the leaves have fallen off the trees. Good riddance to daylight and that dreadful semi-hot, semi-cold weather that switches up as soon as you’re settling in. What’s that? You don’t know how to survive a New England Winter (TM)? Well, you’re in luck. Here are all the tips you need to make it through the miserable months of November through February (even though the misery really lasts until May) …

Make sure you drink iced drinks 24/7. Everyone knows that it’s impossible to be prepared for the cold without pumping your veins full of that ice cold goodness. You won’t be able to feel cold if you can’t feel anything at all. The experience of temperature is just a social construct.
Valuable clothing during these times: T-shirts and shorts. Embody the spirit of your local middle school friend who only wore highlighter colored Adidas t-shirts and flip flops when it snowed during recess. Even the cold itself will be scared of your resilience. In any circumstance, you’ll be the best dressed (and maybe then, Adidas will finally sponsor you).
A hammer and a chisel. After this winter, you won’t be able to escape your clingiest friends — the icicles. Might as well create some cool art out of your frostbitten skin.
Summer scented hand sanitizer from Bath & Body Works. Drive away the boring winter scents, if there even are any, with tropical Watermelon Lemonade, Fiji Guava, and Oahu Coconut Sunset. (Bath & Body Works, please don’t sue me.)
Hot chocolate. No, not for you — for the nurses you’ll cuddle up to when you decide that fatigue has won its way over you and attending class. Just make sure you have a late pass on hand in case they kick you out instead.
Some ear-muffs. Not only are they good for blocking out the wind, but they’ll also block out the 5 Christmas songs that the radio loops after Halloween passes too. If the cold won’t kill you first, hearing “All I Want for Christmas” every single day most definitely will.
LAST RESORT: Turn into a zombie. When all else fails, this is the remaining fool-proof option. No more “cold, cold, cold,” only “brains, brains, brains!” Honestly though, you’re already surrounded by them during winter term anyways.