{"id":207418,"date":"2010-01-21T03:02:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T08:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/cgi-bin\/?p=1037367"},"modified":"2010-01-21T03:02:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T08:02:50","slug":"rain-rain-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/207418","title":{"rendered":"Rain, rain, go away"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"(WYATT<\/p>\n

(WYATT ROY\/The Stanford Daily)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

BRAYNK! BRAYNK! BRAYNK! BRAYNK!
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWake up! That\u2019s the fire alarm!\u201d yelled an R.A. from West Lag. \u201cEveryone out!\u201d<\/p>\n

It was 5 a.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs this a sick joke?\u201d demanded a freshman from West Lag in his Simpson\u2019s-themed pajamas, eyeing the rain outside.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the firemen eventually showed up and clarified the issue: \u201cIt was a false call apparently triggered by the power outage. Have a good day, everyone!\u201d<\/p>\n

West Lag may have suffered alone on Tuesday, but on Wednesday the whole campus was drenched.<\/p>\n

In Wednesday\u2019s 9 a.m. Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) lecture for \u201cThe Making of the Modern World\u201d in Cubberley Auditorium, an eerie silence took over the class as Prof. David Como awaited the arrival of more students to fill the mostly empty lecture hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so wet!\u201d burst out a girl in the back as she started taking off her soaked outer layers. Only a handful of guys snickered at the remark–obviously the mood was rotten in Cubberley.<\/p>\n

On the other side of campus, students biking to their 9 a.m. Physics 41 lecture attested to the irony of the situation. The topic of the lecture: relative motion. In real world terms, that means that when you bike, the rain hits you in the face.<\/p>\n

Even traditional gossip during lunch took a rain-related spin.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard two girls crashed while biking by the Oval and, when they were getting up, the Marguerite came by and splashed them,\u201d related a girl in Stern Dining.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw facility workers shoveling water from White Plaza,\u201d attested a freshman.<\/p>\n

Another chipped in: \u201cThey even say there\u2019s water in Lake Lag now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The students taking Social Dance at 12:50 p.m. knew too well how wet their fellow students were. The only person who didn\u2019t seem wet in the class was the professor, Richard Powers, whose smooth swing moves must surely come in handy as he twists and turns to skip the puddles across campus.<\/p>\n

On a positive note, however, Social Dance was slightly less awkward as the rain offered the perfect ice breaker.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, what\u2019s up with all this rain, huh?\u201d asked a large upperclassman whose wet socks left a mark on the floor. His partner politely laughed as they struggled with six-count swing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish the weather would make up its mind,\u201d said a tall, skinny Asian freshman in a soaked dark blue windbreaker. \u201cI’m fine with it just raining for a few days and stopping. But today, it’s rained for an hour, then stopped, then rained again, then stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, the rain appeared to reach its climax for 10 minutes every hour and then stop.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, those 10 minutes coincided with the breaks between classes. While most students complained of the rain, there are always a few rain lovers–everyone\u2019s met them. They wait for any chance to convey how original they are by going against the trend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love rain!\u201d said an upperclassman as he sat comfortably in Tresidder Union, his umbrella–in the shape of a Jedi sword–close at hand.<\/p>\n

In yesterday\u2019s weather chaos, there seemed to be only two types of students: those with rain boots and those with wet feet.<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s not forget the clever few who, bundled in their covers, made the right choice and stayed in bed. There\u2019s a reason they got into Stanford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(WYATT ROY\/The Stanford Daily) BRAYNK! BRAYNK! BRAYNK! BRAYNK! \u201cWake up! That\u2019s the fire alarm!\u201d yelled an R.A. from West Lag. \u201cEveryone out!\u201d It was 5 a.m. on Tuesday. \u201cIs this a sick joke?\u201d demanded a freshman from West Lag in his Simpson\u2019s-themed pajamas, eyeing the rain outside. Thankfully, the firemen eventually showed up and clarified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}