The storm that pummeled the Midwest with record-nearing amounts of snowfall dropped over nine inches of snow in Sheboygan County Feb. 1 and 2 and gave Lakeland students Groundhog’s Day off.

But not all of them spent it inside.

A group of freshmen met near Grosshuesch Hall for a snowball fight planned on Facebook.

“It’s fun. It’s just something to do on the day off,” freshman Lisa Franzen said.

“This all happened because we had no class today and we’re bored,” freshman Jacob Steppe said before tackling a friend on a snow pile.

Freshman Ashelie Lunde walked with her mom, Housekeeping Staff Member, Paula Wilkinson, on her round through Krueger Hall. Lunde said her dad went into the ditch Wednesday morning after trying to evade a drift in the middle of the road, and Wilkinson said she was thankful to live close enough to walk to work from her house on Prof. Drive.

“When I was walking over I said, ‘Dude, where’s my car?’ It was completely buried in snow this morning,” Wilkinson said.

Senior Amanda Wilfert and her boyfriend, senior Clayton Sattler, snowshoed in Grether Woods, watched movies, and did homework on their day off. While brushing snow off Wilfert’s vehicle, they offered their opinions on the snow.

“I love snow,” Sattler said.

“I like snowshoeing—but I hate the cold,” Wilfert said.

Junior education students Adams Disi and Vincent Paseli snapped pictures of each other standing in front of snow mounds by the Wehr Center for their friends and family in Malawi, where at the lowest temperatures drop to about 50 degrees.

“When they see the pictures, they’ll be amazed,” Disi said. “’What if you don’t have heaters, are you dead?’” he asked sarcastically.

“The storm yesterday worked to my advantage because we had no classes. I’m hoping for another snowstorm,” said Disi.

Paseli seconded Disi’s lighthearted anti-academic sentiments. “Snowstorms on the weekend do no good because on the weekend there’s no class. I like it when it storms during the week. It works!” Paseli said.

Another education student from Malawi, senior Frackson Liteleko, said the cold weather doesn’t bother him anymore after experiencing five Wisconsin winters at Lakeland.

“My first year [experiencing the] cold was bad, but now I’m comfortable in the cold weather and can go outside with only a sweatshirt on,” he said, but added that he spent the day off working on papers.