In March and April we have spring break, May and June are the intro months to summer, July and August are summer, September is back to school, October has Halloween and November and December are the holiday season. The two least eventful months of the year, in my opinion, are January and February, especially since they are back-to-back. In addition, we have finals, cold weather, and the shortest (and darkest) days of the year. Unless you have a birthday, these months are the worst out of the whole year. 

When Dec. starts, I am happy about the time of year. The holidays are here, family coming home, lots of good food, but after the holidays is when it gets hard to crawl out of bed in the morning for school. We get three weeks of school, then finals. One of the most stressful and tiring weeks of the year (the other being June finals), keeping students up until midnight, spending the weekend in their room glued to their desk. Finals week is only one of the components to making Jan. unbearable. 

Secondly, the weather. I enjoy the cold… to a certain point. I feel refreshed when I walk outside in the morning to a 50 degree day in my jeans and sweater. But when the temperature is in the 30s, and it would be snowing anywhere else, I am given another reason to dread getting up in the morning. When I wake up in the morning to the snow shining through my curtains and a text from my friends saying school has been canceled, I am excited for a fun day in the snow with my friends. But no, our Oregon weather chooses to merely freeze us instead of giving us snow. Additionally, these days are the darkest of the year. 

Having November and December with several days off, going back to school later becomes difficult. When we are given two months consisting of only three days off, most people’s lives become unexciting. From my experience, going to school the week after winter break felt like a normal school week, but once we made it to the second week back at school, waking up at seven in the morning was a challenge. Departing from my warm bed suddenly became a struggle, and homework at night kept me up later than usual. 

Maybe this is all brought about by the finals season, but nonetheless, my opinion stands. Jan. and Feb. are the worst months of the year.