Issue date: 4/1/08 Section: Forum

When I returned to campus in January, you welcomed me back with spring-like warmth and excitement that only a high schooler before prom would understand. Those first few weeks with you made me forget about my fall fling. I'll never forget our first snow together.

I was really nervous about taking you on our first date to the Millennium Park ice rink, but it wasn't long before I was head-over-skates in love. And it's funny because I'm usually not into your type, but I'd been burnt by too many summer loves. I was ready for something new.

I was nervous about taking my Enterprise Reporting class with you, because I always worry about putting myself out there with your type, but you had me believing from the beginning that you would treat me well. I would hit the streets twice a week, and you always seemed to save the best for me on those days. I didn't even mind that you covered my camera in snow a few times. Sometimes I'd just get to shooting and selfishly forget how camera-shy you were.

And I'm not gonna lie, I really appreciated all that snow you poured on me, because it let me know that you cared. I know how badly you wanted my attention, but I got so caught up in my work I began to lose time for sledding or building snowmen. I'm sorry it hurt your feelings. You kept heaping it on, trying to keep me interested, and it reached a certain point where I started getting annoyed with it all.

And then it was about February when you started getting really cold with me. It began when you canceled evening classes in a fit of rage. Then I remember the days leading up to Valentine's Day being very icy. You childishly covered the sidewalks in ice just in hopes of seeing me slip and fall. I shiver now at the memory of the long cold nights, when you would howl outside my window begging me to care again while I curled up in my bed hoping you would just get the message and leave.

My friends and I started talking about how immaturely we thought you had been behaving. But after Valentine's Day, it seemed like things were finally heating up between us again. You showed me your sunny side, and it felt like things would work out after all. I took you to Purdue for a basketball game and things got so spicy, I took my coat off!

But soon we were back to me being busy with schoolwork, you craving attention like a child, me ignoring you and you lashing out with flurries of snow. It got to the point that you knew you were being obnoxious but you were so desperate to win me back that you didn't care what it took. When we hit March, you resorted to violently sending thunder and lightning my way, and I knew then that our differences were irreconcilable.

I just want to say, I've had enough, Winter Quarter. Spring is in the air and she's fresh, exciting, and more fun than you'll ever be. You and I have had our highs, but far too many lows, and it's finally time for me to move on.

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