A (Very Rare) Snow Day!

If you're not in the Midwest, thank your lucky stars today. We're having a heck of an ice storm, and it's resulted in Simpson College calling off final examinations for the day. The driving is very difficult, the walking even tougher, and the trees are bending due to a heavy coating of ice.

This is pretty rare at Simpson: We're a residential college, and 90 percent of our students live within walking distance of their classes. We've called off classes only 3-4 times in the 18 years I've been at Simpson, and I understand that the college has called off classes so rarely in its 150 years that you could count the number of snow days on two hands. Joe Walt, the college's historian, probably could give me the exact number.

We'll be back at final exams tomorrow, pushing the schedule back a day for everyone. But the forecast is looking better, and it looks like we'll be able to get through to the end by the end of this week.