Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Students took advantage of the snowstorm by building snowmen all across campus.

Alas, fellow Columbians, our wintry fun is fading before your eyes.  Here in front of Dodge, see the physical manifestations of innocent fun disappear.  It’s a literary symbol, or something. Photo by AB

As you awake this morning to news of no snow day, we will attempt to comfort you with some cool pictures of Columbians frolicking around college walk (wearing varying degrees of appropriate snow clothes).

As the snow begins to melt, Bwog says its loving goodbyes. Thanks for the day off, old friend. Photos by MJM & Vivek Bhagwat

It’s past noon, and you have no ambition to get out of your pajamas or stop mindlessly staring at your computer screen. This can only mean one thing–it’s time for Saturday Morning Cartoons! Cartoons by Abigail Santner

SNOWBALL FIGHT TONIGHT AT 7:30 With thanks to Jon Hill, Elizabeth Jacob, Mahrah Taufique, Derek Arthur, Matthew Martinez, and Michelle Madejski for the photos

Continuing today’s snow sculpture-related coverage, and apropos to tonight’s J-School lecture on regime change, one of the once proudly (or panoptically!) upstanding snowmen on South Lawn appears to have capitulated, inspiring Bwog to cite Shelley’s “Ozymandias” and post this apt juxtaposition:   Meanwhile, this find on Hamilton Lawn indicates it may not have been quite the bloodless coup: […]